Remove the caps when recycling

Please read the post in Italics below.

They may tell you about this in the beginning when a new recycling company takes over your local contract (I bet you read all the literature they may or may not have sent you) but they are a business and they only make money by doing things the most efficient way they can. It doesn't matter about the ethics of what they claim to be doing, it's all in the fine print. So the question is how many items really get recycled ? Why don't the recyclers just write it on the bins "REMOVE ALL CAPS!" There, an easy solution..........

Posted by Seth Mote on EARTH911.com Nov. 23rd (see the link)

"I work for a company that sells baling wire to most of the large recycling programs around the country. Upon a recent tour of three very large recycling facilities on the eastern coast I noticed that a fairly large amount of plastic drink bottles where ending up in the "to landfill pile". After the third tour I asked the plant manager about these bottles and I was informed that if the lids are left on the bottles they go to landfill. He told me that they don't have time to unscrew the caps for separation and that if they try to bale these with the caps on they don't hold the shape and take up too much room. This is something that I never thought about before and feel that it is a concern we all should raise awareness about."

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