Water bottle lids are not recyclable. If you recycle a bottle with it on, they throw the whole bottle away!!!!

Question

Am I the only one who never knew that? I allways keep the lid on the bottle when I put it in the recycle ben. But on planet green channel (used to be discoveryhome) on TV, they said that at the recycle factory place, if they see a bottle with the lid still on it, they throw the whole bottle away because the don't have time to take it off. Do all the other green living people allready know that? I just found that out. I can't believe all these years that I thought I was recycling, all those bottles were just thrown away. How was I suppose to know? I wish I had found out earlier!

Answer 1

You can call the local disturber of the water and ask if they want the lid back because I know my brother use to work for Coke and they always dumped the expired product out and recycled the bottle and kept the lids. They recycle them if good.

Answer 2

It is far more important to reuse the bottle as many times as possible rather than recycling them after one use.

You should of course keep those bottles out of the sun and away from high temperatures,  because they give off estrogenic chemicals when heated or exposed to sunlight. Those estrogenic chemicals do not cause cancer, but they accelerate growth of cancers the way estrogen does...by triggering rapid growth of arteries to supply blood to a cancer.  

Rinsing a bottle out after it has been heated or exposed to sunlight will reduce the  amount of estrogenic material that you consume by 60% or more.

But keeping this in perspective women do have a higher blood estrogen level every month, and it accelerates cancer only if and when their offsetting progesterone level stays low.

Recycling however is not the  solution. It is in repeated reuse.

Answer 3

I had no idea but a few years ago decided some plastic caps made great checkers or chips for board games & such.. Then decided to find more uses for caps. They work pretty well at protecting the floor from scratches when used under furniture legs. Also they came in handy as spacers when I stained wood shelving. The cats get a bit of tuna every 2 or 3 months & caps are a nice size without stinking up their regular dish. Sometimes I put small caps in the bottom of a planter before adding potting soil so the water has some drain space.

Now I guess I will have to come up with even more uses.

Answer 4

u should bring this as a serious global issue because so many people r so clueless and does not no so they will continue to do it and that is not helping the planet stay clean and green

Answer 5

I have heard this as well.  I wonder if all places will recycle them if you remove them from the bottle or just your area???  Now I think I'm going to call my recycle center because I've been throwing my caps away all this time.

Answer 6

I'm calling shenanigans on this one!

Answer 7

Thanks for the information.  We don't buy bottled items as often as we used to because we bought reusable bottles, but we often leave the lids on our bottles when they go in the recycling bin.  We squeeze out whatever air we can then put the lid back on so that the bottle takes up less room.  We don't have curbside recycling so it allows us less trips to the bins.  I guess I'll have to start removing the lids when I get there.