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

A great project idea for Boy or Girl Scouts, Service Groups or High School Science Clubs...

I'm not the only one thinking about the Great Pacific Gyre "Trash Island."

I'm so thrilled to find The Tech Museum in San Jose, California sponsor a challenge to students and young innovators, grades 5 thru 12. The Tech Challenge is April 2011. Let us begin to solve problems. Won't you please help our world today? CLICK HERE to learn about the "Tech Challenge."

I've done a ton of research on simple ways any one of us can reduce contributing to the plastic garbage mess. Recycling is the most obvious and can easily be promoted by Boy or Girl Scouts, Service Groups such as Rotary, Kiwanis, Garden Clubs or any one of us interested in protecting our environment and natural resources. CLICK HERE to learn more.

QUESTION: How to recycle plastic caps and lids that curbside recycling may not accept?

ANSWER: Earth Day Every Day. Recycle Plastic Caps and Lids. FREE collection containers to those who ask.

Email: AnnaAndAva@gmail.com

Recycling Plastic Bottle Caps. Exciting program for schools...

Go green. Eco-friendly. Sustainability. Environmental Leadership. Be a faithful steward of the land.

I am a Mommy raising our daughter to protect and respect the environment. I wonder, what does it all mean? What can I do (what can we all do) to make our world a better place?

There are so many apartments and condos throughout California and beyond that have no curbside recycling programs. Imagine the hundreds of thousands of children who attend school every day, and have no idea what this simple, common idealogy really means?

Found this inspiring program through Aveda, a major make-up manufacturing company, that will work with your communities' schools to collect and recycle plastic bottle caps. Aveda will even provide mailing labels to send in the bottle caps. Any one of us can spearhead this great recycling program. It costs nothing but a little effort. Please, let's do our part today! If we don't set an example for our children, who will?

CLICK HERE for Recycle Caps with Aveda. I'd be curious to know if any of our local schools already do this? Feel free to write in. Thank you!

CLICK HERE for Concord, CA recycling guidelines and information.

CLICK HERE for an interesting Q/A about why many recycling centers do not accept plastic bottle caps.

Join the fun! Earth Day - Every Day.

EMAIL: AnnaAndAva@gmail.com
510.406.1625

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

Did you know? Most city curbside recycling does not accept plastic caps and lids. Everything from toothpaste caps, laundry detergent, bottles, lotions, potions, mustard, mayonnaise and a million other kinds of hard plastic caps and lids. PLEASE don't throw them away only to be landfilled.

CLICK HERE for all information about this little known fact.

Join the fun today!

Recycle Plastic Bottle Caps. Our Community Cares. Won't you please join us?

Mommy, Daughter project for today and forever...

We recently learned our town of Clayton, California curbside recycling does not accept plastic bottle caps. So, Ava and I assembled collection cans to share with neighbors and friends. Our goal is to collect caps (lots of caps!) and send them off for recycling.

Earth Day is April 22, 2010. It is never too early and never too late to make a difference in the world. We're shooting for the stars. Won't you please join us?

Please contact me for an MS Word Document of this flyer. Or, if you prefer, I can drop a collection can at your home or office.


Email: AnnaAndAva@gmail.com
Cell: 510.406.1625

CLICK HERE for a related post about Recycling Bottle Caps. You can start your own program Any Town, USA.

Like to color or know a child who does?

CLICK HERE for a Fun and Educational Recycle Caps with Aveda Coloring Page.

One more reason to recycle plastic caps. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch...

Photo courtesy of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

CLICK Photo to see greater detail.

The remains of a Laysan Albatross chick which was fed plastic by its parents resulting in death.

Look at those plastic bottle caps and lids. And a felt tip pen marker? My, oh my! Well, this is confirmation that small steps really can change the world. Are you interested in recycling caps and lids?

Many curbside recyclers do not recycle this particular type of plastic item. CLICK HERE to read other related posts about "Earth Day Every Day. Recycle Plastic Caps and Lids. Go Greener with The Lemon Lady."

For a collection container and flyer:

EMAIL: AnnaAndAva@gmail.com

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.

Contra Costa Times - Saturday, March 20, 2010 - Earth Day Caps

Earth Day Caps, by Joan Morris
Bay Area News Group, Saturday, March 20, 2010
Home and Garden Indoors and Out

CLICK HERE to learn about Earth Day Every Day. Recycle Plastic Caps and Lids. Go Greener today!

Email: AnnaAndAva@gmail.com

(510) 406-1625

(925) 672-1988

Are you a good recycler? Think outside the box and beyond the water bottle...

Craft morning at our house.

More items to add to the list of hard, rigid plastic caps and lids, polypropylene, that is not recycled by some curbside recycling vendors.

Pen and marker caps
Paint caps
Playdough caps
Glue stick or glue bottle caps
Plastic tape rolls
Vitamin Bottles
Sunscreen caps

Think outside the box and beyond the water bottle! Go greener today with The Lemon Lady.

CLICK HERE for Earth Day Every Day. Recycle Plastic Caps and Lids info.

For a collection flyer, Any Town, USA.
EMAIL: AnnaAndAva@gmail.com
510.406.1625

P.S.
Other recycle centers WILL process this material. They simply will not pay for redemption. Get the Facts. CLICK HERE for facts, Plastic Myths Debunked.

CLICK HERE to zip code search for a recycler in a city near you!

Curbside Recycling Services - Cities in Contra Costa County

Allied Waste Contra Costa County and Solano County

Contact Phone: Jennifer Brennan (925) 671-5806
Contact Email: jbrennan@republicservices.com

Service Area: Alamo, Antioch, Bay Point, Benicia, Blackhawk, Clayton, Clyde, Concord (County Area), Concord (Morgan Territory Area), Danville, Diablo, Lafayette, Martinez, Martinez (Alhambra Valley Area), Moraga, Mt. View Sanitary District, Orinda, Pacheco, Pleasant Hill, Unincorporated Pleasant Hill, Unincorporated Pleasanton, Walnut Creek

Valley Waste Management
****NOTE**** We service the following areas: Cities and Unincorporated areas of: Alamo, Danville, Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda, Walnut Creek and some areas in Pleasanton and Pleasant Hill.

Contact email: csnorthbay@wm.com
Contact Phone: (925) 935-8900

Collection Locations - Drop of plastic caps and lids for recycling...

Earth Day Every Day. Don't throw away! Recycle Plastic Caps and Lids.

Collect them at home, office, school. Bring saved caps and lids to one of several convenient drop off locations throughout Contra Costa County. Thank you for helping keep earth a little greener every day!

CONCORD

Sonoma Bank - Concord Downtown

Virginia Thomas, AVP Branch Manager
1900 Grant Street
Concord, CA 94520
(925) 521- 9922

Share Food Pantry

3039 Willow Pass Road

Concord, CA 94519

(925) 827-4273

WALNUT CREEK

Contra Costa Certified Farmers' Market

Walnut Creek, CA - SUNDAYS ONLY

Keith Farley, Manager - at the information booth

Locust Street adjacent to Target

CLAYTON
VILLAGE MARKET - Clayton Downtown
6104 Main Street
Clayton, CA 94517-1202
(925) 672-0188

For A Collection Flyer, or to help Go Greener today!

EMAIL: AnnaAndAva@gmail.com

510.406.1625

Anyone interested in Going Greener with the Lemon Lady? Earth needs a few good heroes...

How to recycle caps and lids, hard, rigid plastic:

EMAIL: AnnaAndAva@gmail.com or call: 510.406.1625

This "hero" needs a little help from area businesses, non-profit groups, individuals, anyone who is willing to host a collection container to collect plastic caps and lids. Our Earth needs a hero. Won't YOU be a hero today. (I can't do it all alone.) I will refer your business as a collection point for the public to drop off plastic caps and lids.

Residents all over the Bay Area are interested in collecting these plastic items for recycling. Curbside recycle companies usually do not accept this type of plastic. Go ahead, call your local waste management organization and learn the facts today. Once you learn the facts, doesn't it just make you feel like going GREEN?

EARTH DAY - EVERY DAY. LEARN THE FACTS, Recycle Caps. CLICK HERE for facts.

The Lemon Lady Goes Greener. Earth Day Every Day. Recycle Plastic Caps and Lids.

CLICK HERE to read all about my new campaign.

For a list of Plastic Caps and Lids Collection locations:

In Concord, CLICK HERE.

A photo is worth a thousand words...

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

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? Email: AnnaAndAva@gmail.com.

I'm so impressed with the spirit of our community. Overnight, a hundred people have emailed me to begin this collection effort.

Thank you all - each and every ONE of you. Earth Day is Every Day.

Thank you for your help!

Ava and I are delivering cans for collecting caps. Thank you in advance for your helping any way you can! Happy Earth Day - Every Day. (510) 406-1625 or AnnaAndAva@gmail.com.

From Aveda's website:
"This program educates students and underscores the impact of
positive change.

This project teaches students that we are all responsible for
taking care of our environment. It empowers us all to stimulate
change on a local and national level. And beyond the benefits of
environmental conservation, it teaches students that when we all
work together with a common purpose, we can effect change."

How awesome!

CLICK HERE for my earlier post about Recycling Bottle Caps in Clayton, Concord, Martinez, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek, Danville and beyond. We need your help! Anywhere, anyone who generates bottle cap garbage, shampoo, containers, toothpaste caps, salad dressing, soda, juice, milk...