There is a request going around in our area asking for plastic bottle caps of any kind — water bottles, soda, laundry detergent, etc. Supposedly, if you save 1,500 of these caps, someone is ...

Drinks in glass bottles contained more microplastics than those in plastic bottles or cans, according to a new French study. ...

Aveda’s Caps Recycling Program will re-purpose these toxic plastics as a base for new ... Aveda’s Caps Recycling Program is designed to remake waste into 100% recycled plastic caps for ...

Now that most plastic bottle caps are all made of the same, single material, recyclers can separate them out. Here is how the recycling process works: 1. You recycle your bottle with cap on. 2.

Plastic bottle lamp base; fig. 1. Joel Barnard. 2. Drill a 3/8-inch hole in the center of the bottle cap for the lamp stem. 3. Coat the inside of the bottle and cap with a thin, ...

It's not your imagination: Beverage containers for milk, soda and water have gotten harder to open in recent years because their plastic screw top caps have been shortened to save plastic. It's a ...

Plastic bottles and caps should now be kept together when you recycle them. The reason? It's easier to sort them that way.

Before you toss another empty plastic bottle into the recycling bin in your kitchen, you might want to make sure the cap is still attached. As Lifehacker points out, when you remove the cap from a ...

With the recycling industry in flux, the rules surrounding recycling plastic aren’t always a given (at least, in the U.S.). For one, you can’t recycle plastic bags or straws and now black ...

Tethered caps are not easily removed from plastic bottles—they are difficult to throw away even if someone wanted to. The initiative is modeled on a packaging change in the 1980s.