Incredible idea! I wish we could do this for food, as well.<p>And I don't mean food banks or soup kitchens. I mean the second McDonald's burger I was too stuffed to eat, or even the 8th leftover slice of pizza (as good as it is cold, somebody else could probably benefit from it more).<p>The logistics and legal challenges are mind-boggling, but there has to be a way.
Very cool, I love this new stream of nonprofits from YC.<p>I'm curious about a couple of things:
Do you repackage the medicines before shipping them?
Do you currently just handle tablets or also other forms (insulin for example, that may have to be refrigerated)?
I didn't realise the situation with throwing out medicines was so bad in the US. For comparison, pharmacies in Australia have always been a place where you would return unused medicine, where it is destroyed (some medicine just cannot be reused), reused or shipped to developing countries (used to be able to send recently-expired medicine that was still effective but I think I read this was no longer the case)