Recycle Plastic Milk Bottle Caps

This is part of an effort to increase the amount of material collected and to avoid sending consumers conflicting messages.

Recycle plastic milk bottle caps.

Recycling plastic lids and caps may pose dangers to workers. Cut the bottles and caps up into small pieces about 1cm square or smaller is good. Then when the jug is fill it goes into the recycling. They can also present a safety risk for recycling workers.

Some bottle caps are also hdpe. Also plastic caps and lids can jam processing equipment at recycling facilities and the plastic containers with tops still on them may not compact properly during the recycling process. Our members are reporting a growing demand for the caps themselves and we want to assure recycling coordinators materials recovery facilities operators and other collectors of. A lot of people remember the times when they were told plastic bottle tops were not to be put in the recycling bins as recycling plants didn t have the facilities to recycle small items.

You can now recycle plastic bottle caps lids. Briefly the process comprises. The plastics recycling industry is now recommending that consumers replace caps and lids on plastic bottles and containers they recycle. Recyclers will shred the 2 or 5 plastic into flakes which are washed rinsed and dried.

Plastics are then soaked in water where the bottle made of 1 plastic will sink and the cap 2 or 5 plastic will float. Source material can be found in the form of plastic milk bottles also some bottles from household cleaning supplies toiletries. We remove bottle tops and caps and collect them in a 2l milk jug along with any straws and other small plastic parts. Our council website told us this avoids the small plastics falling through the sorting belts.