1. You recycle your bottle with cap on 2. Bottle and cap are sorted out from the rest of your recycling (paper, metal, glass, etc) and baled 3. Bottle and cap go to a Bottle Washing Plant 4.

Christian Cotroneo is the social media editor at Treehugger. He is a founding editor at HuffPost Canada, and former writer at The Dodo and Toronto Star. Tossing that plastic water bottle in the ...

The easiest method to curb plastic bottle cap pollution: If you drop a bottle cap on the ground, pick it up. Once you're done with your bottle, recycle it.

Zero-carbon plastic precursor manufacturer company Origin Materials Inc. has developed what it says is the first sustainable and fully recyclable plastic bottle cap for plastic bottles.

More companies want to state that they use 100 percent PCR in their packaging, Rajaraman says. “In many cases, the resin that’s currently used in the color concentrate is a virgin resin,” he says. “So ...