They'll accept any color plastic lid with a 2, 4 or 5 printed on it, which includes caps from drink containers, shampoo bottles, toothpaste caps, medicine bottles, coffee cans or peanut butter lids.

Plastic bottle caps can be recycled but are often lost, discarded or end up as litter, Coca-Cola said in a statement. The new design aims to reduce that, the company said.

Thanks, Andy H. A: Luckily, there’s a simple rule of thumb to follow for lids, caps and tops. Plastic caps and lids go back on their original (now empty and rinsed) containers.

According to the American Headwear Alliance, which represents producers such Zionsville-based Lids and Massachusetts-based ’47 Brand, the vast majority of caps sold in the U.S. are imported from ...

Lids of any kind should not be left on glass jars. Either plastic or metal, the lids make big problems when the glass is crushed, because they can’t be easily or safely removed from the crushed ...

While most metal caps and lids are lined with a thin coating of polyethylene, the plastic is burned off during the processing and melting of the metal.