Plastic Drink Bottles
- DO rinse these bottles out before putting into recycling
- DO remove the lids (info on recycling the lids here)
- DO put in curbside recycling
About These Items
These single-use drink bottles are everywhere in our community. Fortunately, they can be recycled via the city’s curbside recycling program and are some of the most marketable recyclable plastic. Make sure you empty them out and take off the caps. If you see these bottles laying around as litter, consider picking them up and adding them to your recycling to make sure they don’t wind up in the landfill, where they can take hundreds of years to decompose.
These bottles are sometimes referred to as “PET bottles”, which stands for polyethylene terephthalate.
Carry your own bottle.
While soda and water bottles are among the most valuable recyclable material, they are also one of the most prevalent pieces of waste we consume. They are produced from fossil fuels and their production and transportation comes with carbon costs. Considering carrying your own re-usable bottle with you, especially as an alternative to purchasing bottled water.
Look for alternatives.
We don’t yet have common alternatives for larger bottles like 2-liter soda or laundry detergent, but when it comes to water bottles or other single serving drinks, you can have a positive impact by carrying your own reusable bottle with you or choosing drink alternatives that come in aluminum cans or glass bottles which are more consistently recycled.
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