Plastic water bottle recycling?

Question

When you recycle plastic water bottles do you include the white plastic caps and the white ring beneath the cap or do you remove those and throw those in the trash?

Answer 1

Definitely No, Both are plastics, But the bottle is Poly Tetra Fluro Ethylene and the cap is not. both are recyclable. but Separately.

Answer 2

it takes 3 liters of water to make a 1 liter bottle and another liter of water just to fill it.

Not to mention all the toxins that will leach into the water after a few times of drinking from it.

AND think of the continent sized plastic refuse floating in the ocean that the fish and birds are trying to eat.

A lot of the stuff that is supposedly recycled is actually thrown away because it's cheaper to throw it away in this country.  Check with your recycling facility because in some of them if anything has paper or is incorrectly recycled or is dirty, they throw the whole batch out.

Friends don't let friends drink from plastic bottles.

Answer 3

These caps, unlike the bottle, are NOT recycyleable. They are not biodegradeable and end up in landfills, lasting longer than we humans do. This lady has some cool projects you can do with your bottlecaps, rather than throwing them away.

Answer 4

After seeing many recycling places, they all want the caps.

Answer 5

I keep the whole thing and refill it, reuse it many times over. I would not be at all comfortable with recycling anything that is  still serviceable.

In a way, I prefer to buy the bottle of water, discard the water because it contains too much plastic, and refill with fresh previously sterilized water. But I have been known to drink the stuff that comes with the bottle.

Answer 6

Chickadees and nuthatches love peanutbutter and suet.  I tried using the bottle caps as containers for them, but the chipmunks ran off with them.  I am considering drilling holes in opposite sides of the caps and connecting them in a string fashion so that I can hang them from a tree limb or a roof.  Has anyone tried this?  How did it work?

Answer 7

FYI:  If you include the caps, your bottles will not be recycled.  The bottle will be tossed.  BOTTLE ONLY, no caps.

Answer 8

I always include the caps, not caring what the policy is. They're plastic, aren't they?

Answer 9

Those go as well.

Answer 10

I try never to buy anything that isn't completely recyclable.

The only time I buy bottled water is if the local tap water isn't drinkable.

Answer 11

i would think they are. i mean if the bottle says " recyclabe" then shouldnt the whole thing be? =]

Answer 12

You're told not to put in the caps and the ring, but all in all, that part of the bottle is still more easily recylclable than much of the other stuff that is sent to those facilities.

The best thing to do would be to not even buy the water bottle in the first place, as they leave a high carbon footprint in the first place. If you do buy it, you should re use it as much as possible, then recycle it.

But yeah, I hear tell that though they tell you not to, most recycling facilities don't care if you leave the cap on or not.

Answer 13

Avoid bottled water all together and start carrying your own polycarbonate, refillable water bottle. This avoids sending MORE of these darn things to landiflls ans well as avoids leaching of the plastic into your water.

Answer 14

plastic bottles aren't recycled at all where I live