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On Sep 17, 2012, at 10:08 AM, Neila Seaman wrote:
> Recycling "Flips Its Lid" in Iowa
> Richard Alan, Public News Service-IA
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> (09/17/12) DES MOINES, Iowa - Plastic caps and lids may not be very big, but when hundreds of thousands of them end up in landfills, they make a big impact. The caps have not been part of the recycling process until now.
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> Reo Menning with Metro Waste Authority in Des Moines says a change in recycling technology has made it possible to reuse those plastic caps.
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> "Caps are typically made out of a different plastic than the rest of the bottle, and the challenge was, how do you separate the two different plastics, because one plastic can't be mixed with another kind of plastic once you get to recycling. But they've now come up with ways to be able to separate those two."
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> Menning says the less that has to be tossed into landfills, the longer those facilities will last, no matter how small the items are.
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> "Right now, we don't have estimates on how much space that's really going to save us, but we know it's going to save us some, and make it last a little longer. "
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> She says all people have to do is rinse their bottles and put the caps back on them in order to recycle them. And she explains the reason the caps need to be on the bottles is simple: they're so small that they are likely to be lost in transport.
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