No matter how much we try to push plastic from our lives, there are always lingering offenders. For us, many of them are cosmetic- and food-related containers (moisturizer and ketchup come to mind), and plastic caps are not accepted in many city recycling programs (though most single-stream programs do accept plastic lids). What to do?
If you're not able to recycle plastic lids in your household, find out if schools in your area are participating in Aveda's new(ish) recycling campaign.
Recycle Caps With Aveda is a program that accepts rigid lids (from the likes of shampoo, mayonnaise, and more). If there's not a school in your area that is involved, encourage them to sign up. You'll be improving the community and recycling even more in one fell swoop.
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Comments (11)
According to an email I received last year from the "Recycle Caps with Aveda" Program you can also bring your caps to any Aveda store or send to:
ACA Waste Services
40 Eads Street
West Babylon, NY 11704
I saw a jar in the doctor's office collecting bottle caps as a fundraising (cancer treatment for a boy), though I'm not sure how that works.
You can check with local schools, preschools, and children's museums to see if they use bottle caps in projects. They make great wheels for recycled material cars.
I bring my caps to Aveda everytime I head to the mall. I once dropped off 500 caps at one time! Sometimes if you are lucky, they may even give you a free sample of a product. =)
here's another way to recycle bottle caps--make art! spotted at the Heidelberg Project in Detroit, art done by some local schoolchildren.
<A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wheatland/4113401476/">Bottle cap art at the Heidelberg Project, Detroit, MI</A>
I am so excited about this program! I just called around Sacramento, CA and found the closest drop-off location: the Aveda store in Roseville Galleria. I e-mailed all my local friends/family members/coworkers just now to tell them I am placing a bin on my front porch and at my desk, collecting all clean and acceptable plastic caps and lids; once the bins get a decent amount in them, I will sift through the lot, then take them out to Roseville (a mere 45-mile round trip for me) to be recycled by Aveda. Perhaps I'll also be inspired to turn them into an art piece...
Great post!
recyling...hmm!...what if companies found alternatives to plastic caps.... :(
I think some salons that carry Aveda may also accept caps. A salon near me had a display of artistically arranged caps in its window, and I'm thinking this may be what it signified.
So excited to see people getting in to this. If anyone is in Boston, you can visit our store at the Copley Place Mall. We have many dedicated guests who continually collect caps at home, work and even on airplanes! One flight attendant continually brings in the caps he collects from water on his flights. It melts my heart to see people take the effort to care for our earth.
so THAT's why there was a bowl of caps at the Aveda salon!!! There was no sign, I thought it was so weird!
Most of all I like the artwork created by the bottle caps arranged according to colors. With everyone wanting to show how "green" they are these days, why not decorate in this way?