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Recycle plastic milk bottle caps.
Plastic bottle caps plastic bottle caps such as those from your milk and water bottles can also be recycled.
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.
Source material can be found in the form of plastic milk bottles also some bottles from household cleaning supplies toiletries.
You can now recycle plastic bottle caps lids.
Our council website told us this avoids the small plastics falling through the sorting belts.
Then when the jug is fill it goes into the recycling.
Cut the bottles and caps up into small pieces about 1cm square or smaller is good.
Recyclers will shred the 2 or 5 plastic into flakes which are washed rinsed and dried.
We remove bottle tops and caps and collect them in a 2l milk jug along with any straws and other small plastic parts.
The plastics recycling industry is now recommending that consumers replace caps and lids on plastic bottles and containers they recycle.
They can also present a safety risk for recycling workers.
This is part of an effort to increase the amount of material collected and to avoid sending consumers conflicting messages.
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.
The material recovery facility mrf will use a pressurized system to expel caps and flatten bottles.
Some bottle caps are also hdpe.
Briefly the process comprises.