Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle plastic screw-top bottle caps?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:50:03 +0000

What information do you have on this as I would like to follow up??

By: Louise

Louise — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:53:54 +0000

We are making new products from recycled bottle tops, our first product is a stylish pet bowl which is made in the UK. We are collecting and recycling milk bottle tops to make these products and making a donation to charity per tonne of tops that we can recycle. Current bowls are black but future ones will be green, have a look at them at http://www.wildstore.co.uk the sucess of our recycling project depends on us being able to sell the finished product so hopefully they will be popular!
Let us know what you think at meltdown@btconnect.com
Louise

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:52:37 +0000

My daughter is collecting bottle cap to recycle, but then I heard about a company that collects them for children with cancer. For every 400 caps 1 child would receive one free treatment. Her school collected over 14,000 caps. I did my research and found out this cause was a hoax. So now I am looking for an other organization out there that collects them for a cause. Can you please give the information you have on your cause. I can bring it up to the school.
thanks

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:31:27 +0000

There is a “Recycle Caps with Aveda” Program. It is an ongoing program for Aveda.

You may bring your caps to any Aveda Experience Center or send them in by mail to:

ACA Waste Services
40 Eads Street
West Babylon, NY 11704

Caps included in this collection are any plastic “twist on” caps. Some examples are; water bottles, soda bottles, laundry detergent bottles, ketchup bottles, and shampoo/ conditioner bottles. Caps that are NOT included are any metal caps and any “snap fit” plastic caps. Some examples of snap fit caps are; margarine and cottage cheese caps.

By: INFUSEDgoods

INFUSEDgoods — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:28:51 +0000

You can make a basket from plastic caps and some wire. I have instructions on my blog here: http://infusedgoods.blogspot.com/2009/04/bottle-cap-basket-instructions_08.html

By: Shannon Clark

Shannon Clark — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:28:59 +0000

We are setting up the company so that when our product has served it’s purpose it can then be mailed back to company to re-purpose bottle caps again and again. We have come a long way on our quest for caps and would like to Thank all of you who have donated. We will be using a minimum of 500 caps per product. Which means we will be re- purposing in the beginning up to 20,000 caps a week!! That is a lot of caps not going to landfill. Since we have so many request now for prepaid envelopes we decided to make things easier we have launched a new website where we are giving away free organic cotton tees or hats for minimum donations.
Thanks to everyone for participating!! Keep the caps coming please!!
Shannon Clark
The ReCap Co.

By: addy

addy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:30:07 +0000

for metal bottle caps you can make a trivet by hot gluing them onto a piece of wood. you could probably also make a trivet with cement. i am not sure if these ideas work for plastic bottle caps though.

By: Gabriella

Gabriella — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:27:48 +0000

I collect bottle caps for a Girl Scout project that i am working on. i am 13 years old and just started the silver award the highest award for my level of girl scouts and i am collecting bottle caps for and art workshop where we will be making a mural i am also collecting art supllies to make “Comfort Bags” for kids in the hostipital orin the local womens shelter. If you have any questions or would like to learn more contact me at Comfortbagsforkids@gmail.com or Comfortbagsforkids.blogspot.com.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:26:27 +0000

That is an awesome idea. I am going to try it myself.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:04:39 +0000

Plastic caps need to be recycled!! We would love to have all your plastic bottle caps!! We are starting up a small manufacturing company in which we will reuse plastic bottle caps. Our company will repurpose these caps for an Eco friendly product that will be used by consumers for many, many years. We are not having any success trying to retreive from waste management facilities before they ship to landfill. We need to collect post-consumer!! If you are interested in participating in our quest for caps contact sl.clark@yahoo.com and I will provide a prepaid envelope for mailing.

Thank you!!
Shannon Clark
The ReCap Co.

By: GW

GW — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:48:09 +0000

Found this on a site for Aveda:
RECYCLE CAPS WITH AVEDA

Aveda found that a majority of plastic bottle caps do not get recycled today.

Often these caps end up as litter or trash, ending up in landfills and beaches or migrating into our rivers and oceans. Birds and other marine creatures mistake them for food with tragic results. The magnitude of this pollution problem is devastating to our oceans and wildlife.

You can be part of the solution by joining Recycle Caps with Aveda.

Aveda is announcing a new recycling initiative that helps extend the current boundaries of recycling and elicit participation from all corners of our community. With the help of our network of salons and stores, in partnership with community schools, we are building a new recycling program for plastic bottle caps in which caps are collected at stores and schools and then sent by Aveda to our recycler where the material is recycled into new caps and containers. Aveda has been able to work closely with our suppliers to develop ways to make new caps and containers from the recycled caps. We hope to ship new products using this reworked, environmentally-friendly material later this year.

What type of caps do we collect?
The program accepts caps that are rigid polypropylene plastic, sometimes noted with a 5 in the chasing arrows recycling symbol. This includes caps that twist on with a threaded neck such as caps on shampoo, water, soda, milk and other beverage bottles, flip top caps on tubes and food product bottles (such as ketchup and mayonnaise), laundry detergents and some jar lids such as peanut butter.

Excluded from collection are pharmaceutical lids and non rigid lids such as yogurt lids, tub lids (margarine, cottage cheese), and screw on lids that are not rigid. If you can bend or break the lid with your bare hands, then it does not meet the rigid plastic definition. Please do not include any metal lids or plastic pumps or sprayers. Unfortunately, too much of the wrong types of materials can contaminate the recycling process. We appreciate your efforts in keeping it clean!

We kicked the cap out of plastic at
New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2009

Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2009 marked the official kick-off of Aveda’s Caps Recycling Program—our powerful grassroots effort to help save marine life by reducing the amount of caps littering our beaches and oceans. Models, stylists and designers backstage participated in the program—bringing in their plastic caps to Rodarte, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Preen and Alexander Wang—Aveda’s designer partners in “green-ing” the runways.

Join the Recycle Caps with Aveda campaign. Bring your plastic caps into an Aveda Store and feel great knowing that they will be repurposed into new Aveda packaging and kept from entering our waterways and harming wildlife.

Want to know how your school can get involved?
Click to learn more: Parents | Teachers. Remember to contact capcollection@aveda.com when you are ready to enroll your school.

Like to color or know a child who does?
Click here for a Fun and Educational Recycle Caps with Aveda Coloring Page. Enjoy!

By: Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:31:05 +0000

is there anyone living in Japan that`s saving bottle caps???? if so ……..

please E-mail me so that I may if possible, get information on where I can start looking for a recycling center to help these ppl in need.

One-Love.

By: Michelle Stitzlein

Michelle Stitzlein — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:21:10 +0000

Hard to believe, but I’ve been working with kids and large plastic cap art projects since 2004! I generally visit 10-15 schools/organizations each spring and we make bottle cap murals and freestanding garden installations. Check out past projects on my site: http://www.artgrange.com/michelleworkshop.html

My booklet “Bottlecap Little Bottlecap” explains the supplies needed and all the steps for the murals, free-standing yard ornaments, lawn installations and fridge magnets. It provides many tips on how to collect, clean and affix/apply bottle caps in general. It is 30 pages with many color photographs and examples and is available for $22.00 here:
http://www.lulu.com/content/2508533

By: Bobbie

Bobbie — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:56:17 +0000

Drill a hole in the center of each one, then mount on a drawer for pulls…

By: Ivette

Ivette — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:37:05 +0000

My art teacher gives us foam plates as palettes. Soon I started to hate it because the paint would spread all over the plate, so I decided to hot-glue bottle caps on the plate =) ta-da! that was my new palette!

By: CDMalcolm

CDMalcolm — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:02:05 +0000

I came up with some Ideas for Bottle Caps for Practical use and non Practical use.
1) I make Closet or Draw Air Fresheners. I buy Natural Scented Oils, felt sheets, and use junk mail for some filler. I sell 6 to a pack for $2. also in the makes, a mothball versions.
2) Make spinning tops out of them. toys for children 10 and up. you can make it into a old game of fighting tops and just add a non sharp object and thick paper cut into stars with 3 to 10 sides. It needs to just stick out by 2 cm from the 2 caps (open side facing each other) paper star in between. use a large bowl and watch them go.
3) Make furniture sliders, requires some cutting gluing them together using recycle rubber sheet about a quarter inch thick. you may find this one challenging. (5 to 10 caps needed)
4) Fishing Floaters, using foam. 2 caps 1 washer, 1 nut and 1 closed hook screw. (2 caps needed)
5) This is more towards the arts and crafts. make bugs out of them. Use the flexible fuzzy thingy that can bend any which way for legs. use your imagination.
6)Christmas ornaments, use your imagination
7)make a starship, some cutting required, your imagination, glue.
8)Make game Playing Pieces.
9)This is a dumb one but Seed holders for selling seeds. Just remember to mark them.
10) Refrigerator magnets. Design it anyway you like.

I guess this is my 10 useful purposes for Plastic Caps from Soda Bottles.

If you plan on selling any of these, MAKE SURE you remove ALL logos. The caps are generic. You can even buy them.

By: Lizz M

Lizz M — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:16:10 +0000

IF ANYONE HAS ANY SPARE BOTTLE CAPS THEY DO NOT NEED COULD THEY PLEASE EMAIL ME, AND SEND THEM

WE ARE FUND RAISING FOR A SMALL BOY WHO NEEDS AN OPERATION, AND WE HAVE TO GATHER 4,000 BOTTLE CAPS. AND YOU COULD CONTRIBUTE BY SENDING ANY AMOUNT FOR AS LITTLE AS 21P (PRICE OF 2ND CLASS STAMP)

PLEASE GET INTOUCH IF YOU ARE WILLING TO PARTICIPATE

THANK YOU

PLEASE EMAIL SPUD_U_LIKE14@HOTMAIL.CO.UK

By: Suzie.M

Suzie.M — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:32:06 +0000

can any one please tell me what kind of metal bottle caps like J2O and Becks caps are made from?And also how much money u could get for melting them down pound for pound? thank you xx

By: Jeanette

Jeanette — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:45:41 +0000

Hey! I’ve used them before to hold small amounts of paint in. Great for kids!! =]

By: M.

M. — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:09:21 +0000

Check this out!

http://www.artgrange.com/LittleBottlecap.html

By: Bas - Istanbul Expat

Bas - Istanbul Expat — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:53:58 +0000

My laptop’s quite ‘old’ (which means more than 1.5 year) and it’s starting to get very hot nowadays.

To prevent it from overheating, I use plastic bottle tops to make sure there’s enough air below the laptop for proper ventilation.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:17:13 +0000

It’s called “projecto tampinhas” and is now backed by many local authorities (in Portugal!)

If you search in Google images for “projecto tampinhas” you can see the campaign has good graphics, with a little cartoon bottle cap urging people to recycle it.

There are also pix of people getting wheelchairs, so the scheme must work.

Google search

By: Cheryl D

Cheryl D — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:40:53 +0000

For those interested in recycling bottle caps (because they definitely do NOT get recycled when left on the bottle), Aveda is recycling them in the U.S. They can be dropped off or mailed to Aveda – lots of info on their website. If you’re outside U.S., I would still check with Aveda in your country.

By: Thomas Zdobylak

Thomas Zdobylak — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:29:08 +0000

Why not use this water bottle caps and remake them into somthing that people use every day or somthing that will be handy when you have an emergency. But you have to clean them first you never know if they contain any bateria that can harm the owners that want to buy this product^_^

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:06:37 +0000

Do you happen to live in Florida? The reason I ask is because someone I know started this in my company and I just found out they are no longer collecting. So I thought I’d come on to find something to do with them.

By: Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:19:32 +0000

I`M an American living in Japan,and I have been saving the screw on caps for plastic bottles for some time now,and if there is anybody that can get me information on where I can take the caps (in Japan)that I have collected it would really be a good thing for me,because I really want collect and help provide wheelchairs for the unfortunate people not only in Japan,but all around the world!
by the way……….
Everyone’s suggestions for the caps were great!

lawbereal@yahoo.com

By: Shaelyn

Shaelyn — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:29:32 +0000

This fitness club that i work at collected millions of bottle caps for cancer treatment but it ended up being a hoax…i would hate for all this hard work to be thrown in the dumpster … Any ideas please?!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:03:18 +0000

Hello. If you want to recycle plastic bottle caps I discovered this program from AVEDA shampoo company called Recycle Caps with Aveda. You can collect and send caps to them but you are responsible for the shipping. They send the caps out to their recycler where they are made into new caps and containers. Here is the website and good luck!

http://aveda.aveda.com/aboutaveda/caps.asp

By: Hector

Hector — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:12:29 +0000

If you are really trying to help by recycling or whatever you preference is, I found this organization that for every 800 plastic caps that they recycle, a child will get one vaccination for free. Those plastic caps are later shredded and molded to be used for concrete molds.

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:36:18 +0000

If you are within Hampshire (UK) there is a company which will collect the plastic milk bottle tops (in fact any plastic tops that have the “2″ recycling logo inside – but not any others just yet) – for every 500kg they collect they will donate £25 to the charity of our choice.

We are collecting at work and are raising money for the Rose Road Association through this scheme (Rose Road support families with children with disabilities). Rose Road cannot accept/collect the tops themselves but through this recycling scheme we can still help them.

This solution is positive for everyone – the plastic gets recycled into new things (even t-shirts!), the lids don’t end up in landfill (thus reducing environmental impact) and the charity gets well-earned cash as well. Go to GHS’s website for more details… http://www.ghsrecyclingltd.co.uk/2403/frames.php for more details.