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.

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.

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 ...