Recycle Plastic Milk Bottle Caps

Source material can be found in the form of plastic milk bottles also some bottles from household cleaning supplies toiletries.

Recycle plastic milk bottle caps.

The material recovery facility mrf will use a pressurized system to expel caps and flatten bottles. Recycling plastic lids and caps may pose dangers to workers. Log in to reply. 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.

Some bottle caps are also hdpe. 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. This is part of an effort to increase the amount of material collected and to avoid sending consumers conflicting messages. Cut the bottles and caps up into small pieces about 1cm square or smaller is good.

The plastics recycling industry is now recommending that consumers replace caps and lids on plastic bottles and containers they recycle. Then when the jug is fill it goes into the recycling. Recyclers will shred the 2 or 5 plastic into flakes which are washed rinsed and dried. Our council website told us this avoids the small plastics falling through the sorting belts.

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. We remove bottle tops and caps and collect them in a 2l milk jug along with any straws and other small plastic parts. Briefly the process comprises. You can now recycle plastic bottle caps lids.