You can recycle plastic bottles, and even metal bottle caps. So why can't you recycle Plastic Caps(KEXON)? Sierra magazine's Josie Garthwaite has the answer in another installment of the Bryant Park Project's one-question interview series.
So, here in New York, they have stickers that tell you what you can and can't recycle. They tell you to put plastic and glass bottles in a new can. Metal bottle caps go in that can, too. What about plastic bottle caps? Those, New York City tells you, just throw them away. This is kind of nationwide, and we want to know why. So, it's time for another BPP One-Question Interview, and I reserve the right to ask follow-up questions. Josie Garthwaite is the lifestyle editor of Sierra Magazine, and that's Sierra as in the environmental group, Sierra Club. Hello, how are you?
Ms. JOSIE GARTHWAITE (Lifestyle Editor, Sierra Magazine): I'm good, thanks.
PESCA: Well, thanks for coming on, because we have one question, and I hear that you can answer it.
Ms. GARTHWAITE: Well, I'm certainly going to try.
PESCA: And here's the question. Plastic bottle caps, why aren't they recycled? Can they be - that's two questions. I'll ask it like this.
PESCA: Can plastic bottle caps be recycled?
Ms. GARTHWAITE: Can they? Yes. But the interesting part is what makes the material collected in your city or not. And plastic bottle caps are made from a type of plastic called polypropylene. You would recognize it in those three chasing arrows as the number five and letter PP underneath that. 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, those can be made into things like garden rakes, and brooms, and ice scrapers, usually sturdy things.
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