Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Instead of being tossed in the trash, plastic bottle caps will soon be deployed in a pilot project in Canso, N.S., to help break ...

GREENSBORO, N.C.-- If you're serious about recycling or new to the game, you may have asked a coworker or neighbor this question---should you recycle plastic bottles with the cap on or off? Here is ...

BOTTLE MAKERS TO TETHER CAPS TO BOTTLES. SPONSORS OF THIS PROPOSAL SAY SINGLE USE PLASTIC CAPS ARE EASILY SEPARATED FROM BOTTLES, REDUCING THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THEY’LL BE RECYCLED. A NUMBER OF STUDIES ...

Plastic bottles, on the other hand, are usually made from a different kind of plastic called polyethylene terepthalate, or number one and PET. And polypropylene, that number-five plastic bottle caps, ...

Metro Atlanta therapist Heather Elson and local students are turning thousands of plastic bottle caps into art for an Earth ...

We all consume milk, soft drinks, juice and water on a daily basis and throw the plastic away, without even thinking that once in the waste stream, it will end up on a landfill site. Now you can start ...

Unlike Lake and Porter counties, which leave the decision to offer curbside recycling up to municipalities, all LaPorte ...

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 ...