When you recycle plastic, they almost always ask you to remove the cap from things like milk jugs or pop bottles and other similar items, since that plastic is a different type than the rest of the container (which is usually a number 1 or 2 plastic).My question is, why don't they make the cap out of the same type of plastic, so the whole thing is recyclable? I'm sure there must be a good reason, I'm just curious as to what it is...
they are made from different plastics and sometimes the dyes they use will contaminate the plastic's recycle-abilty (if that's a word lol) they're playing it safe asking you to take it off. it's better to recycle an entire jug and not throw in the cap than to let the jug and cap rot away in a land fill (or rather NOT rot away).
No it dosen't matter. But what matters is to recycle paper and plastic!
