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Recycling Guide to Caps, Lids and Tops

For recycling enthusiasts, the recyclability of container caps, lids and tops can offer hours of stimulating conversation. For everyone else, the question of whether to recycle these small items is just plain annoying. Regardless of how you categorize yourself, the information below should boost your recycling IQ.

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Disposable Coffee Cup Lifestyle Slow to Change

Dunkin' Donuts, the state’s largest chain of coffee shops, isn’t quite ready to give up its signature polystyrene coffee containers for the sake of the environment. But the 24-hour breakfast and caffeinated beverage giant says it is trying to be somewhat green.

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The Plastic May Be Clear, But the Consensus Is Not

In a statement that caught many consumers and industry insiders by surprise, Sarah Kite, director of recycling services at the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation, said Rhode Island’s post-consumer PET plastics buyers considered plant-based PET a contaminant.

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