Because, according to new guidance from the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), caps and bottles not only get along just fine in the same bin, there's a big demand for both. What's this, you say?

So what’s the right way to recycle a plastic water bottle? First, remove the cap and crunch the bottle up from the base until most of the air is removed. Screw the cap back on, then toss the ...

The design of a product affects how readily it becomes litter, and this is especially true for bottle caps. Tethered caps are not easily removed from plastic bottles – they are difficult to throw away ...

A: The Solid Waste Disposal Authority and Allied Waste Services, which has the recycling contract for the authority, asks residents to remove caps from plastic bottles because the bottles are ...

Tethered caps are not easily removed from plastic bottles – they are difficult to throw away even if someone wanted to. The initiative is modelled on a packaging change in the 1980s.