BOTTLE MAKERS TO TETHER CAPS TO BOTTLES. SPONSORS OF THIS PROPOSAL SAY SINGLE USE PLASTIC CAPS ARE EASILY SEPARATED FROM BOTTLES, REDUCING THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THEY’LL BE RECYCLED. A NUMBER OF ...

Whether you can recycle bottle caps locally depends on your provider, which may categorise them as a recycling contaminant. Even when plastics are recycled, the process creates a lower-quality ...

Even with this small business exemption, 97% of the 15 billion plastic beverage bottles sold in the state annually would be required to have tethered caps. Some California-based bottle ...

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.