Which side are you on?
I know this can get a little heated and I hope we can all keep this civil. When you throw out an empty bottle, after you finish it, do you put the cap back on when you trash/recycle the bottle or toss the cap on its own? Twist off only.
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I dont recycle for the most part. I saw that like 75% of recycled material doesn't get recycled but sent to 3rd world countries to dispose of. Has to do with the cost of recycle vs cost of getting rid of it. Tons of it ends up in the water ways and eventually into the ocean. I rather it sit in a landfill locally then in an ocean.
"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
-- Winston Churchill
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my town has started processing glass for use as filler in pavement, it helps if the metal is removed. Metal cans and plastic is shipped off...somewhere. Scrap metal is sold. Recycled trash costs the town about half what unsorted trash costs. The landfill has been capped and all trash is shipped off Cape by train due to our sandy soil being the sole aquifer. Oil is recycled. Paper is shipped off to be burned and the heat is used to generate electricity. Corrugated cardboard is recycled (but no greasy pizza boxes please). Branches and leaves are chipped and composted then offered back to citizens for free as compost or mulch. Hazardous materials like florescent lights, nicads, refrigerants, and electronics all get handled appropriately. Twice a year hazardous chemicals and paints etc. are collected.
more on glass recycling here:
https://cen.acs.org/materials/inorganic-chemistry/glass-recycling-US-broken/97/i62 -
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Where I live, if you toss an empty bottle in the recycle without the cap, it is inviting critters and bugs into the recycle.
Even washing them out, doesn't prevent this. So we leave the cap on.In Fumo Pax
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.Wylaff said:Atmospheric pressure and crap.0 -
If I am in a large building (businesses, schools, stadiums, etc.) I put the cap back on and into the bin. every can no matter what it is labeled goes into the trash. At home cap in garbage bottle in recycling.
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give". Winston Churchill.
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- Why are you asking? Is this going to help you solve a dispute,... or make a decision?
- Are you talking about plastic AND glass? Maybe you meant glass because some of those have metal caps and that might be a problem at some point. Otherwise what difference would it make for plastic bottles with plastic caps?
- Is this really about politics? You said, "I know this can get a little heated and I hope we can all keep this civil". Are you trying to demonstrate how we can be civil if we discuss differing opinions as long as we don't have our brains polluted with false ideas about the other side's motivations?
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I eat the caps and throw out the bottles.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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sides are like magazine subscriptions
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I am assuming we are talking about all plastic bottles, yes? I put the cap back on, but still toss it into the recycle bin, and hope for the best. Even if you toss the cap separate, there is still that annoying retaining ring, which was part of the cap until you open the bottle for the first time. Does that also need to be removed for the bottle to be considered "Cap Free"? Such deep thoughts before my coffee.
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If you want me to type out a long explanation and take up a bunch of my time you have to ask a more pertinent question.
Or..... this is a contest and everyone responding gets entered into the drawing.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis4 -
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We leave the caps off plastic and glass. Caps, if metal go into metal bin if plastic in plastic bin. If I take the caps off plastic bottles I can crush the bottle so it takes up less space in the plastic bin.
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@Bob_Luken said:
1. Why are you asking? Is this going to help you solve a dispute,... or make a decision?
2. Are you talking about plastic AND glass? Maybe you meant glass because some of those have metal caps and that might be a problem at some point. Otherwise what difference would it make for plastic bottles with plastic caps?
3. Is this really about politics? You said, "I know this can get a little heated and I hope we can all keep this civil". Are you trying to demonstrate how we can be civil if we discuss differing opinions as long as we don't have our brains polluted with false ideas about the other side's motivations?- I was at the gym and a friend asked “Why the eff do you put the cap on before you toss your water bottle?” It got me thinking of I’m the only one who caps before
- Twist off only. Doesn’t matter the material.
- No. No politics. Pure sarcasm.
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@Vision said:
@Bob_Luken said:
1. Why are you asking? Is this going to help you solve a dispute,... or make a decision?
2. Are you talking about plastic AND glass? Maybe you meant glass because some of those have metal caps and that might be a problem at some point. Otherwise what difference would it make for plastic bottles with plastic caps?
3. Is this really about politics? You said, "I know this can get a little heated and I hope we can all keep this civil". Are you trying to demonstrate how we can be civil if we discuss differing opinions as long as we don't have our brains polluted with false ideas about the other side's motivations?- I was at the gym and a friend asked “Why the eff do you put the cap on before you toss your water bottle?” It got me thinking of I’m the only one who caps before
- Twist off only. Doesn’t matter the material.
- No. No politics. Pure sarcasm.
I thought it was worth googling,.... actually some municipalities have asked citizens to leave the caps off when recycling because as the bottles go into the crusher they would shoot caps out at great speed when enough pressure forced them off the bottle, and also because the caps are a different type of plastic and required separate recycling methods.
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Cap on because I can crush the bottle seal it and it doesn't blow back up
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I’m in the country, we are required to recycle but it only runs every other week. I have to cap it with no air to make room.
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My wife told me not to crush the bottles because the guy at the center said a crushed bottle might get shot out of the machine and hit someone...Nothing about the leaving the the cap on.
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Usually, but not always, I'll put the cap on plastic bottles when I put them in the trash. And usually, but not always, I'll crush it first to save room.
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I’m not voting or contributing because I still think this is a contest of some kind.
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@CalvinAndHobo said:
I’m not voting or contributing because I still think this is a contest of some kind.It wasn’t…….
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Bottles get filled with water and taken to the range as targets.
I'm still troubled by what I did for that Klondike bar...5 -
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Most whiskey/gin/vodka bottles get thrown in the trash. If I put them all in the recycle bin my garbage men would schedule an intervention
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@Jrflickster said:
Cap on because I can crush the bottle seal it and it doesn't blow back upThis is what I do so my garbage bags don't fill up with air. I hate taking the trash out.
I don't recycle. Here in Vegas, we get one black (trash) can and one blue (recycle) can that we have to rent from the trash company. I use the black one as a trash can and the blue one as my second trash can.
They say that a lot of people doing a little can make a big difference and I believe that. I hope they're doing it!
@ScotchnSmoke sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones.3 -
Wash out and and save it to put screws in.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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People actually eat that shìt???
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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wash, cap off, recycle
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We buy organic bulk PB in quart plastic jars with snap on lids so we wash the jars, and reuse them in the freezer for stock, tomato sauce, etc.
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Got me thinking why I recycle......It all boils down to I'm cheap.... The state used to have free recycle pick up (Even gave you a free trash can) but they did away with that years ago. So now my wife stops by the center once a week to drop off what we have for free.
For a trash service, it would cost me $85 every two months....With just me and the wife at home now we only have one small bag of trash a week at most....That's to much money to spend.
So I just collect the trash till the three cans I have are filled. It takes 2-3 months to fill them....Then I load them up (Plus the trash from my shop) and take them to the landfill where it only costs me $10-$15
The trash doesn't smell keeping it that long because any organic food leftovers we have gets placed in the compost pile I have in the woods and the deer and other critters take care of most of it.5 -
@Yakster said:
My hesitancy to clean out peanut butter jars (my Wife eats a lot of peanut butter) is the water usage in this extreme drought area of California.I wonder how it would go if you put Mountain Dew in there and sealed it for a day.
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@CalvinAndHobo said:
@Yakster said:
My hesitancy to clean out peanut butter jars (my Wife eats a lot of peanut butter) is the water usage in this extreme drought area of California.I wonder how it would go if you put Mountain Dew in there and sealed it for a day.
Think regular Coke would work better
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