The Suffolk Waste Partnership has launched a campaign to encourage residents to recycle the aluminium screw tops from glass bottles such as wine, spirits and cooking ingredients, along with the glass bottles on which they came.
The ‘Leave Your Cap On’ campaign aims to increase the recycling of aluminium screw tops and collars by encouraging people to screw the tops back onto the empty glass bottles before taking them to one of the 1500 glass recycling banks located throughout Suffolk.
The ‘Leave Your Cap On’ campaign highlights the importance of recycling the aluminium closures which, like all aluminium and glass packaging are 100% recyclable; so every screw top and bottle deposited in a glass bank can be transformed into something new, including more bottles, metal packaging, mobile phones and even car parts.
So when you next recycle your empties remember you can ‘Leave Your Cap On.’
(Extract from report to Combs Parish Council by District Councillor David Whybrow, February 2016)