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Plastic Caps - Recycle Them!

Recycling plastic caps or lids is an issue which just keeps going on.

Not too long ago I said to include them but do not attach them to the bottle as they tend to explode during the recycling process and can cause injury to workers.  Most recycling companies will take the lids but the question is what do they do with them.

Here’s the answer to the problem:

Aveda Cap Recycling Program.  Yes, the Aveda Company, manufacturer of high end, good for you, hair and body products, has added a cap recycling program.  This is great news for all involved.  They run a program whereby school children can become involved in the collection of caps and lids and the school sends them to Aveda.  Aveda supplies both shipping labels and postage paid labels if needed.

Here is an excerpt from their site of what they collect:

“What type of caps do we collect?
The program accepts caps that are rigid polypropylene plastic, sometimes noted with a 5 in the chasing arrows recycling symbol. This includes caps that twist on with a threaded neck such as caps on shampoo, water, soda, milk and other beverage bottles, flip top caps on tubes and food product bottles (such as ketchup and mayonnaise), laundry detergents and some jar lids such as peanut butter.

Excluded from collection are pharmaceutical lids and non rigid lids such as yogurt lids, tub lids (margarine, cottage cheese), and screw on lids that are not rigid. Please do not include any metal lids or plastic pumps or sprayers. Unfortunately, too much of the wrong types of materials can contaminate the recycling process. We appreciate your efforts in keeping it clean! Please help Aveda in our mission to encourage local recyclers to accept plastic bottle caps.”

This is a great opportunity to begin a program at your local school, your church, any group that would be willing to participate.  My local Aveda Salon is also accepting caps and lids, so I will be taking mine to them.

Here’s the link to Aveda’s site so you can get all the scoop. http://aveda.aveda.com/aboutaveda/caps.asp

Caps and Lids – little things that really add up.  Let’s get them in the right place!

Related articles:

• How To Separate Your Recycling (howcast.com)
• U Penn Grads to Wear Recycled Plastic Caps & Gowns (treehugger.com)
• Recycling facts that may surprise you (cnn.com)

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