Before you toss another empty plastic bottle into the recycling bin in your kitchen, you might want to make sure the cap is still attached. As Lifehacker points out, when you remove the cap from a ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A new bill making its way through the California legislature would bring a change to a common grocery store item — plastic bottle caps. Senate Bill 45 would require ...

Recycle your Plastic Bottles with the caps ON the bottles. If the caps are placed in the recycle bin separate from the bottle, they will essentially get lost and end up in the landfill. “But wait… ...

Because, according to new guidance from the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), caps and bottles not only get along just fine in the same bin, there's a big demand for both. What's this, you say?

From July, caps on plastic drink bottles must remain attached to the bottle (a design known as "tethered caps") after opening, in line with an EU directive. While firms have had years to transition to ...

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.