The cap of a plastic water bottle is made of thicker plastic. Is it true you can't recycle these?
yes just like you can recycle plastic bottles
yes But the american Legion post 39 on old dixie hwy has a collection of all caps (plastic only) for childrens therapy of some kind like where they save alum pull tab,s they will be happy to have them the girls in the canteen will take them
You can recycle them by using them for something else. We save the plastic caps from the gallon milk jugs and make checker games. We will store the game in a recycled crystal light container. And the checker board is painted on a recycled piece of material or felt. You can find an organization that works with a children's ministry and send the games to children is other countries. Totally recycled and not just a craft project that is going to end up in the land fill. Hope this helps.
Yes, the recyclers ask that you remove them from the containers so that the containers can be crushed without damaging the steel rollers used to crush them. If you leave the caps on, the containers retain their shape till the pressure bursts the plastic thereby collapsing suddenly and the steel rollers slam together with a fair deal of force which eventually damages them. You're supposed to just remove the caps and toss the caps into the recycling bin. How this mutated into the common belief that recyclers don't want caps is simply evidence that most people don't read thoroughly and are apt to making assumptions. The sorting of plastic in a single stream recycling facility involves dropping the plastic through a laser beam which determines the type of plastic and triggers a puff of air to blow it into the appropriate bin. The caps don't represent any added separating requirements.
