~You Can Leave Your Cap On!

 

A campaign called “You Can Leave Your Cap On” is urging householders to leave the metal screw tops on their bottles for recycling, instead of throwing them out separately, in a bid to increase the recycling of aluminium. Aluminium recycling body Alupro says that 5,000 tonnes of aluminium, worth £2m, could be recovered from glass bottle metal screw tops during the glass recycling process. Metal screw caps are most commonly found on wine bottles and tend to be thrown away separately by householders , but the campaign, backed by Alupro and British Glass, the first of its kind in the UK, aims to highlight the behaviour change required. Local Authorities are beginning to sign up to the communications initiative, which aims to encourage residents not to throw metal screwtops away separately.