Milk Bottle Tops (Plastic) in Brighton
Yes milk bottle tops can be recycled.
RECYCLED
Where?
- Milk bottle tops can be recycled locally here in Brighton & Hove. The council will accept the lids if you push them INSIDE the bottle after washing it.
- The Green Centre at Brighton Open Market. More details here. We will continue to receive milk bottle tops throughout 2020 BUT we encourage you to start recycling them through your kerbside recycling.
How?
- Milk bottle lids must contain no silver tabs inside the lid or paper stickers on the top.
DID YOU KNOW?
- Milk bottle tops collected by the Green Centre are picked up by a company called GHS Recycling based in Portsmouth. They are fed into a large machine called the "Dragon" which breaks the tops down into small granules. These are then sold on to other companies who used them to make new plastic products including; car interiors, plastic garden furniture, plastic toys and black bin bags.
- We receive a small amount of money per tonne which we donate to Lupus Brighton and Hove and Lupus UK.
- Some Stats - Nationally the UK consumes around 180 million pints of milk a week of which at least two thirds are sold in plastic bottles. The plastic milk bottles are recycled by most local authorities but not always the tops.
- Weight -Assuming an average weight of 1g per milk bottle top, there are 1million tops in 1 metric tonne. We have received 9,500,000 tops at the Green Centre which is 9.5 metric tonnes.
- Distance - The diameter of a milk bottle top is roughly 4cms. Laid side by side the 9,500,000 tops we have received would cover a distance of 38,000,000 cms or 380kms or 236 miles. That would stretch from the Green Centre in BRIGHTON to DONCASTER which is 234 miles from the Green Centre. (40,234 tops per mile).
- Area- The area of a bottle top is 12.56 sq cms. The area of 9,500,000 bottle tops is 119,320,000 sq cms or 11,932 sq metres. A regulation tennis court is 261 sq metres so laid out at Wimbledon we would fill 46 tennis courts.