Plastic lids and caps usually have the recycling triangle on them, but often don't actually get recycled.
But a very New Zealand solution is being piloted with the help of twelve schools in the Hawkes Bay.
Good Caps is the programme, and Sandy Boterill, Circular Economy Manager of Plastics NZ, is with me to explain.
Plastic flakes, washed and broken up, ready to become semi molten before being extruded into plastic sheets for reincarnation as another plastic item at Flight Plastics. Photo: Supplied Wellington City Council
