Go Topless

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Dear EarthTalk: Everyone knows we should recycle metal, glass and plastic cans and bottles, but what about all the lids, tops and caps? I see people recycling plastic bottles, for example, with their caps on, but I've always been told to thrown them out. Is that wrong?rn-Stefanie Gandolfi, Oakland, CArnMany municipal recycling programs throughout the U.S. still do not accept plastic lids, tops and caps. The reason is that they are not typically made of the same kinds of plastics as their containers. "Just about any plastic can be recycled," says Signe Gilson, waste diversion manager for Seattle-based CleanScapes, one of the west coast's leading "green" solid waste and recycling collectors, "but when two types are mixed, one contaminates the other, reducing the value of the material or requiring resources to separate them before processing."