A Texas woman's pet dachshund celebrated his birthday by removing 11 caps from plastic bottles in one minute, earning a ...

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Carrollton recycling effort turns plastic caps into seven park benches ...

The old-style milk carton caps were 21 millimeters tall, while the new ones are 17 millimeters ‒ a difference of about 19% that makes them harder to grip, said Min DeGruson, a professor and ...

Even with this small business exemption, 97% of the 15 billion plastic beverage bottles sold in the state annually would be required to have tethered caps. Some California-based bottle ...

According to the new EU directive, companies are only allowed to sell single-use plastic products with caps and lids – like a drinks bottle – “if the caps and lids remain attached to the ...

Tethered caps are not easily removed from plastic bottles – they are difficult to throw away even if someone wanted to. The initiative is modelled on a packaging change in the 1980s.

Plastic bottle caps can be recycled but are often lost, discarded or end up as litter, Coca-Cola said in a statement. The new design aims to reduce that, the company said.

CARROLLTON — Volunteers were busy last week in the Carrollton Public Library basement, counting plastic bottle caps — thousands of them — that eventually will be turned into park benches.