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At least in Australia the lids are considered too small to recycle as they are too light and blow around so you’re supposed to put them in the rubbish. They had
by lathiat 4y ago
At least in Australia the lids are considered too small to recycle as they are too light and blow around so you’re supposed to put them in the rubbish. They had also traditionally been a different plastic which sometimes was an issue.
So it does truly potentially help in the recycling regard. Note however the professing facilities and requirements for this vary wildly from state to state and country to country and also they often ask for a lowest common denominator of all the recycling plants. So it’s not that some places potentially can’t but not all.
Leaving them on also causes issues because if the bottles are air right they don’t compress as well.
- lilgreenland 4y agoMy understanding is that plastic is almost never recycled in America. Does Australia actually have a working plastic recycling system?
- lathiat 4y agoFar from perfect but apparently yes: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-06/plastic-recycling-industry-changes-take-effect-australia/100948448 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-06/plastic-recycling-ind...
- pawelk 4y ago> They had also traditionally been a different plastic which sometimes was an issue. In Poland we set the caps aside then dump into dedicated containers, set up by charity organizations. This specific plastic is supposedly valuable enough to warrant separate recycling logistics.
- rasz 4y agoIts all marketing, paid by EU Eco funds. Caps land in the landfill.