Plastic Cap Recycling

You know those plastic caps on your water bottles, soda bottles and laundry detergent that you never know if you should leave on or not? Do they recycle them if you leave it on? A friend told you that if you leave it on they won’t recycle it. So you throw them in the garbage, right? Well not any more! Clean Ocean Action has partnered with Aveda, the skincare company to recycle them and turn them in to new caps for Aveda’s products. There was a contest that started a few months ago to see who can collect the most caps. There were schools, churches and businesses who participated and over 2 million caps were collected all together! Isn’t it amazing what can happen if a few people group together? We collected here at Organic Style and in just a few weeks, we collected 3000! We had great support from customers and other business owners in the area such as Mike’s Beach House, Twisted Tree, Shelter Home and many others. We even had one young lady who brought in about 500 that she collected at her school. Plastic caps are the number one item found on beaches during clean ups. All too often, birds and other marine animals mistake them for food and often die from not being able to digest them. Now there’s a way to keep them off the beaches and out of the landfills. We will be collecting here at Organic Style as long as they keep taking them. You are welcome to continue bringing them in to us at the store at 621 Cookman Ave, Asbury Park, NJ.

Acceptable caps include 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. Softer, flexible lids such as margarine tub lids and yogurt lids are not acceptable. Please be sure not to include metal lids or plastic pumps or sprayers. Happy Recycling!