The dish on recycling plastic lids, caps, and covers? Although plastic lids and covers are recyclable, most processors ask you to trash them – but there are ways you can avoid sending them to the dump. Here are some few of it:
- Check with your local recycler to see if the plant’s set up to handle small covers and lids. Either way, try to remember to separate caps from containers.
- Aveda - take your caps into any Aveda store, and it’ll recycle them (note: they do have to be the common, #5 plastic type).
- FamilyFun - includes projects that let kids get crafty with caps and lids.
Here are some benefits you can have by doing this; Editing out certain trashy details. Small lids (think water bottles, milk jugs, and condiment containers) often fall through filtering screens and don’t get recycled. And, good news for waste managers, at recycling plants, containers are easier to filter and bundle when plastics don’t mix (lid plastic’s different than bottle plastic) and the air is pushed out (lids trap air in).
