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 Plastic
bottle caps, which can’t be processed by recycling machinery, have a
negative impact on our environment as they end up in landfills, oceans,
rivers and sometimes in the mouths of sea animals. If you put into the
Monroe County recycling blue bins, caps back on the bottles they are
chopped off and with loose caps put in the land fill. However, the Care
of God’s Creation ministry has a plan.
Save what? Plastic “twist on” caps. Examples of caps with
threads are: milk jugs, beverage bottles, ketchup bottles, laundry
detergent and shampoo/ conditioner bottles, prescription bottle caps. Do
not save metal caps or “snap fit” plastic caps such as margarine and
cottage cheese lids.
Put them where? In the brown trash can located at the lower level/back
door of the EducationBuilding. Drop them in the can before/after mass or
religious education, or when coming to a meeting or a talk. Please don’t
put them in our buildings as we don’t want ants to find them.
Where do they go? We’ll send the caps to Aveda in NYC. They have
offered to pay for the shipping. Aveda is working with their recycler to
make caps for a new hair and skin care product line.
How long will we save them? From now until November 30th. We’ll
ship the first batch to Aveda and contact them to make sure they will
continue to take them. Either way, we’ll keep the community informed.
How did we hear about this? From an article this summer in the
D&C newspaper. This past spring, a mom and her two son’s classes in New
Jersey collected nearly 14,000 caps in two months.
Want more information? Check
http://aveda.aveda.com/aboutaveda/caps.asp.
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Bottle Cap Update |
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As of November 10th 2009, we have saved 847 pounds of plastic threaded
bottle caps from going into the landfill! These bottle caps are not
recycled by the Monroe County recycling program (but rather cut off and put
in the landfill). So, don’t put them in your blue bins. Save threaded caps
from bottles (soda, laundry, milk, ketchup, shampoo, etc). (Not snap fit or
pop off types. If you don’t see threads, don’t save them for recycling.)
Please put the clean caps into the large brown trash can (it is decorated
with caps) located at the lower level/back door of the Education Building.
You can place the caps directly into the can, and keep your bag or box to
save more caps. Please do not bring the caps into the church buildings-
just drive by the large brown trash can after Mass or a meeting. Aveda is working with their
recycler to use the collected caps to make caps for a new hair and skin
care product line. See the Aveda web
site for more information:
http://aveda.aveda.com/aboutaveda/caps.asp |
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