Why should you remove the cap before recycling plastic bottles?
It isn’t stated on the fucking bottle to remove the cap, so therefore I don’t have to remove the cap.
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Je'sean
ANSWERS: 4
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If you're talking plastic bottles, it's to allow the air inside the bottle to be squeezed out when it gets crushed. You can get more flattened bottles than sealed bottles in the same space. This also increases the weight - and since payment for recycling is based on weight, you're not cheating yourself.
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I always understood it was because in the recycling process the cap is of a different plastic not compatible with the bottle plastic. Likewise, if you recycle with the cap in place they put it in the landfill as it is too expensive to pay to have the cap removed by hand. Recycling is not what it is cracked up to be.
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Recycling plants want you to make their job easy. It doesn't take much time to remove the cap, rinse the bottle depending on the fluid, crush it for them and separate the recyclables from the non-recyclables in your wheelie bins for curbside pickup.
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Army Veteran They must not want to get their recycling machines dirty. -
Jenny The Great ⭐ The less dirty the recycling machines get, the less cleaning the recycling workers have to do.
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do they actually recycle the bottle is the question?
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Creamcrackered
From what I read on the side of most bottles, not 100% of it.
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