RECYCLING PLASTIC CAPS
AND LIDS
On World Ocean Day, Tuesday June 8th, 2010, Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawai`i along with Goodwill Industries of Hawai`i, Matson Navigation, Young Brothers, Pepsi Beverages Company, ETA Logistics and Lucent Polymers are launching a plastic cap and lid recycling campaign across the state of Hawai`i to help save sea birds.
Researchers have found that 100% of albatross chicks in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands have ingested plastic. Adult albatrosses mistake small plastic litter such as bottle caps, lighters, children’s toys, combs and toothbrushes floating on the surface of the ocean for food and feed it to their chicks. Thousands of baby albatrosses die with stomachs full of plastic, starving to death or dying from blockages, lacerations and dehydration.

Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawai`i has found that plastic caps and lids are one of the top ten items found during marine debris beach clean-ups and are the second most littered item after cigarette butts.
Black-footed albatross and chick. photo: ©Robert Shallenberger
Dead Laysan albatross chick with a stomach
full of plastic bottle caps © Cynthia Vanderlip
Laysan albatross flying over Kaena
Point. Photo: © Dean Otsuki

Laysan albatross feeding chick. Photo: © Barbara Mayer

Help save baby albatrosses and other seabirds by recycling plastic caps and lids.

Links to educational resources regarding seabirds ingesting plastic:

Eco-Negligence Kills Albatross (video)

Plastic Pollution Cases Rise (video)


WHAT TO RECYCLE

CLEAN & DRY

HDPE LDPE PP

PLASTIC CAPS & LIDS

from bottles, cans and tubes including:
drinks, shampoo, food products, detergent
spray cans, coffee cans, toothpaste tubes,
medicines and supplements (remove all
paper, styrofoam and labels before recycling)


Click here for examples of recyclable plastic caps and lids.


Signs to print and use:

Recycling caps logo sign

Recycling caps albatross sign

What to recycle sign


For further information contact:

Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawai`i
ph: (808) 393 2168
What is NOT recyclable:
PETE PS
and dirty caps & lids,
caps with metal, paper, labels,
pumps, sprayers,
styrofoam and polystrene lids,
clear plastic lids from cups
(click here for examples)
Plastic caps and lids are being collected at the following
Goodwill Industries of Hawai`i locations on O`ahu:
(click here for flyer)
Beretania
1075 South Beretania Street, Honolulu
(on Young St. between Pensacola and Victoria)
Hours of operation:
Monday - Sunday: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.		 Kapahulu
3335 Campbell Avenue, Honolulu
(corner of Castle and Campbell)
Hours of operation:
Monday - Sunday: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Mapunapuna
2610 Kilihau Street, Honolulu
Hours of operation:
Monday - Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.		 Wahiawa
823 California Avenue, Wahiawa
Hours of operation:
Monday - Sunday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.


This recycling project is supported through contributions from:






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Coral Photograph Credit to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce and Dr. James P. McVey. Dolphins, Japanese Angelfish, Green turtle, and Laysan Albatross photos by James Watt. Humpback whale photo by James Mobeley

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