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.

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 ...

After you've added the bottle cap, to get to what's in the bag, screw the cap off, then replace it when you're done. Not only is the bag now resealable, in most cases, pouring from the bag will be ...

It's not your imagination: Beverage containers for milk, soda and water have gotten harder to open in recent years because their plastic screw top caps have been shortened to save plastic.