Not all caps/lids are the same, some aren’t recyclable. Do you always read the instructions to separate them from the bottle/box/tube before recycling?
Does Everyone Always Follow Recycle Instructions to Separate The Cap/Lid?
BendBridge on 06/02/2025 - 11:35
Last edited 06/02/2025 - 11:56 by 1 other user
Last edited 06/02/2025 - 11:56 by 1 other user
Poll Options
- 24Yes, I always separate them
- 35No, couldn’t be bothered
- 4No idea about it
Comments
My council specifically says keep the lid on the glass bottle when putting it in the purple bin. Similar for plastic too but not entirely clear
I rinse before binning, but there's always some leftover, and I'm not going to fully wash it, so I bin it closed, ofc.
The problem is that what's written on the bottle/packaging doesn't necessarily match your local council. You need to check with them on what they recycle and what they don't.
My old council you put the lid on plastic bottles and metal lids you put inside a larger metal container. My current council says to bin all lids/caps.
Not everyone does,( speaking from experience, I know them all personally )
Some of them even rinse water bottles before binning, because on their planet potable water is infinite.
3 people in our suburb don't.
Say a soy milk container or pasta sauce jar. I rinse it out and don't put the cap/lid back and throw it in our internal recycling bin and when that's full, we dump it into the recycling bin.
Yes, got to wash the bottle anyway, so just toss them in separately.
All small bits of plastic (cut cable ties, bottle lids, 3D printing waste, swing tag ties) goes into a empty and cleaned 2L plastic milk container. When full, closed with a cap and into the recycling bin. It takes us around 18 months to 2 years to fill the 2L container.
If it does, it at least contains all of the small pieces instead of them "floating around" individually in the landfill.
i thought they wanted them together so they wouldnt fall into a nook and block the recycling machine