100% Recyclable - A False Promise

Various bottling companies claim that their bottles are "100% Recyclable", which sounds great BUT ...wait! The claim is not accurate. According to this article from the Sierra Club, "the US recycling system is currently unable to recycle even a quarter of those supposed 100 percent recyclable bottles and lacks the capacity to recycle more than 12 percent of the bottle caps. Even the portion that does get recycled is never '100 percent recyclable'—about 28 percent is lost to processing or contamination and ends up in landfills." To add comedy to the mix "the polypropylene plastic film labels on which the '100 percent recyclable' claims are printed on the bottles are themselves completely unrecyclable."! So, next time you want to head to the "Mountain with nothing to do", take your own bottle.