Recycling Bottle Caps with Aveda
Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 by PTA.
Did you know that most plastic bottle caps do not get recycled? Well, now Clinton School can help recycle many types of plastic bottle caps through Aveda’s cap recycling program. Aveda partners with schools to collect bottle caps, and then they send the caps to their recycler and use the recycled caps to make the bottles and caps for their products.
The program accepts rigid plastic bottle caps with threads for twisting on and off. The program does not accept non-rigid lids, including lids with threads that are bendable. IF YOU CAN BEND OR BREAK IT, IT CANNOT BE RECYCLED.
YES: caps for shampoo bottles, water, soda, milk, and other beverage bottles, flip-tops for ketchup and mayonnaise, lids for peanut butter, and laundry detergent.
NO: lids for prescription bottles, lids for yogurt cups, margarine tubs, some milk containers.
Containers for collecting these caps are in the front entranceway and in the cafeteria. Thanks to parent Nancy Friedman for bringing this program to Clinton and facilitating.
Thanks for keeping Clinton so green!