Plastic Bottle Caps
Recyclable?
Blue Bins & Chutes
Other Recycling
Recommended
Specialised Recycling
If you can, save up the bottle caps to get recycled separately… but not in blue bins!
Some organisations have special bins for cap recycling.
Plastify
Alternative
Recycling Bins & Chutes
Good news! Most plastic bottle caps are made from recyclable plastic.
Bad news! They are so small that if they are put into the blue bin, they will probably get filtered out at at the recycling sorting plant ("Material Recovery Facility").
So only put them in a blue bin IF THEY ARE screwed onto a bottle!
While the bottle and the cap may not be the same type of plastic, most plastic bottle recycling facilities have the technology to separate the different types of plastic.
Blue Bins
Alternative
Freecycle / Give Away
Schools and art projects ask for donations of such bottle caps from time to time. Save them up and give away when there is a collection drive.
Art Don't Throw
