Category: Reduce, reuse, recycle
Posted by Cindy Jacobs (The Detroit News) on Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 21:00 PMCaps off to Douglas J and Aveda!
Keep recycling your plastic, but hang on to those lids -- Douglas J salons will take them off your hands!
Although bottles are easy to recycle, their lids and caps are much harder to break down.
Douglas J Day Spa and Aveda Institute is collecting used lids and handing them over to Aveda beauty chain, which will recycle and return them to use in the form of shampoo, lotion and other containers. They will be distributed at select retail outlets and contain Aveda's product line. Douglas J is one of the lucky retailers, although they are currently awaiting a restock.
This initiative, along with others that take place throughout April, is in conjunction with Aveda's Earth Month celebration.
Drop by Douglas J (locally, Douglas J is on Fourth Street, just west of Main Street, in Royal Oak; there are also locations in Okemos, East Lansing, Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids) and ditch your lids. They will temporarily become a piece of their display, which is nothing short of art!
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Recycling bottle caps
Good program... but why can't we or why don't we plastic bottle caps?
Often they are made from Plastic #5 which is made from Polypropylene. This material has to be treated differently during melting but that does not mean they can not be recycled.
NPR did a small piece on this with Sierra magazine's Josie Garthwaite that explains this topic a bit more in depth.
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