Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic...

A must see video!

How to recycle plastic bottle caps: Why should we recycle plastic bottle caps? Ever wondered how YOU can help make a difference?

Please be inspired to help recycle plastic caps and lids. It really matters. With YOUR help, we can change the world if we try. This is a perfect service project for environmental conscious individuals of any age! Even my 3-year old can find bottle caps around town, on the beach, in the parks, from vacation at Lake Tahoe to our own backyard of Mt. Diablo in Clayton, California. Bottle caps are everywhere they shouldn't be, even in baby albatross bellies. Would you feed your child plastic bottle caps for breakfast? Please watch the video and learn more of what happens in our oceans.

Contact me for a collection container at:
AnnaAndAva@gmail.com

CLICK HERE to learn more about how you can help Ava and I to "Recycle Plastic Caps and Lids."

Clayton Pioneer. "The Lemon Lady" takes on bottle caps in latest community service effort...

Thank you Tamara Steiner and Denisen Hartlove of The Clayton Pioneer for sharing my newest conservation/recycling project. Bottle cap recycling is an excellent project for teachers and civic groups in Clayton, California, The Bay Area and beyond. The power to make the world a better place begins with each small action we take. Even my 3 1/2 year old daughter, Ava is a good little bottle cap recycler. ;)

CLICK HERE to read the August 20, 2010 Clayton Pioneer story on Page 7.

CLICK HERE to learn all about my Earth Day Every Day Recycle Plastic Caps and Lids Campaign and ways YOU can join the effort too!

For a FREE Collection Container, please email:
AnnaAndAva@gmail.com
(510) 406-1625

Recycling in Schools. Funding available. Let's change the world together!...

Earth Day - Every Day. Recycle Plastic Caps and Lids. Join the fun! This is an excellent recycling program for schools! Help OUR Earth today. Please contact me for a collection container or flyer. I can email or drop one off to you.

AnnaAndAva@gmail.com

(510) 406-1625

Of interest to schools, garden clubs, civic groups: Did you know that mini-grant funding is available to non-profits or schools who can demonstrate waste reduction or prevention, reuse, recycling and composting? CLICK HERE to learn what one Bay Area City has launched to inspire "greening efforts" and recycling in their city. Excellent incentive. I'm very impressed with the program. Go Green Pleasant Hill, California!

CLICK HERE for other GRANTS and CONTESTS rewarding volunteer service.

Why Can't You Recycle Plastic Bottle Caps?

Why Can't You Recycle Plastic Bottle Caps?

Great question! If you've ever wondered - very worth 4 minutes of your time. Excellent interview by NPR.

CLICK HERE to link to NPR, read transcript or listen to actual radio interview.

"July 14, 2008 You can recycle plastic bottles, and even metal bottle caps. So why can't you recycle plastic bottle caps? Sierra magazine's Josie Garthwaite has the answer in another installment of the Bryant Park Project's one-question interview series."

CLICK HERE to link to the "Earth Day Every Day. Recycle Plastic Caps and Lids" campaign. If you're inspired, please contact me for ways to help.

AnnaAndAva@gmail.com

(510) 406-1625

Plastic Pollution in the Ocean. How YOU can help...

PBS Newshour has a great discussion about "Plastic Pollution in the Ocean." CLICK HERE to read more. Does it really exist? What harm to marine and other wildlife does this plastic garbage debris create? What can any one of us do to reduce plastic garbage from entering landfills, polluting our world's oceans?

CLICK HERE for an interesting post about "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch" and links to New York Times Article with stunning photography of this massive vortex of floating junk twice the size of Texas, and only a thousand miles off the coast of California.

I emplore you to take action, at home, at school, in your own neighborhoods. Please read several articles I've authored about "Earth Day Every Day. Recycle Plastic Caps and Lids."

Thank you to the media and thoughtful journalists who continue to share this story. The Contra Costa Times, Danville Weekly and Pleasanton Weekly wrote about my Collection Container Giveaway, which resulted in thousands of emails from schools, teachers, parents, community and civic groups requesting collection containers! Thank you to all who continue to send me emails about this program. I am thrilled beyond imagine to know so many eco-conscious consumers wanting to make a difference - yet simply didn't know where or how to recycle plastic bottle caps and other plastic lids, (polypropylene #5.)

YOUR simple action can potentially keep millions of plastic caps and other debris from landfills. Save the caps. Save the oceans. It all begins with the power of one individual. Won't you please help?

FOR A COLLECTION CONTAINER, please contact:
AnnaAndAva@gmail.com

Cell: 510.406.1625

To learn more about where to recycle these plastic caps and lids:
CLICK HERE

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. What are you waiting for?...

Earth Day is almost here!

Do you wish to make a difference on Earth Day - Every Day!

The photo above is only what our family has collected in the past month. CLICK PHOTO TO ENLARGE and see greater detail.



CLICK CUTE RACCOON for ALL articles I've written about Earth Day Every Day. Recycle Plastic Caps and Lids.

Are you recycling YOUR plastic caps and lids yet?

Everything from mayonnaise jars, salad dressing, peanut butter, shampoo, laundry detergent, milk, juice, water bottles and a million other plastic caps and lids that litter our landfills.

Does your City Curbside Recycler actually recycle these items? Have you actually inquired? Some do, many do NOT. Don't just take my word for it - please do your own research.

Amazing to see all that would have otherwise gone to landfill. Imagine what we can do if more people become inspired. This is one person making a difference. It all begins with one person. Won't you please join us?

For a collection container:
Email: AnnaAndAva@gmail.com
510.406.1625

How to recycle makeup and other empty cosmetic containers, jars - any brand, any company...

This makes perfect sense! I'm so excited I found the "Return To Origins Recycle Program." I hope you share the thrill of knowing where to take old make-up containers, cosmetic, toiletry bottles, tubes, caps, and jars. (The unknown plastics, often not accepted in curbside collection.)

Think of all the blush, mascara, foundation, compacts, concealer, lipstick tubes, facial scrubs, creams, and a million assorted cosmetic bottles and tubes that fill our beauty and medicine cabinets - and our landfills!

Any Brand. Every Brand. Take them all to Origins.

Origins Stores are located in many Macy's Department Stores in our Bay Area, California and other locations nationwide. CLICK HERE for ZIP CODE SEARCH for an Origins Store near you.

Happy Recycling. Be beautiful...and keep our Earth beautiful too.

CLICK HERE for all articles I've written about Earth Day Every Day. Recycle Plastic Caps and Lids. Or, click the cute raccoon on the lefthand sidebar of this blog.

There's so much more to this story! CLICK HERE.