It started with salad dressing.
It started with salad dressing.
And an oily lid that ruined the moment.
The first caps were made in Erie, Pennsylvania, and they still are.
We are a small team, we answer our own emails, and we make one thing well: a cap that turns a jar you already own into something you use every day.
At reCAP, we believe that small changes can lead to big impact. What started as one Mason jar, one clever idea, and a desire to cut down on single-use plastic grew into a full line of reusable, American-made lids that help households everywhere live more sustainably.
Founded by Karen Rzepecki, reCAP is powered by a passionate team committed to practical solutions, honest storytelling, and environmental integrity. We're proud to be a woman-owned business making products that support healthier homes and a cleaner planet, one jar at a time.
It all started with salad dressing.
Tired of messes and rusty lids, Karen was looking for a solution to shake, pour, and store homemade dressings directly from a Mason jar. When she couldn't find one, she invented The Original reCAP.
The Original reCAP Pour gave rise to a new company, where Karen and the team live and breathe all things Mason jars. See the original Kickstarter campaign.
Our team, through the years
We started with one determined idea and grew into a small crew in Erie who genuinely like each other. Here are a few of us along the way.
Our passion for a better world put the re in reCAP: Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle.
Karen was passionate about bringing reCAP to life, in the hopes the cap would make Mason jars more useful and have a positive environmental impact. The best way to reduce waste is to not create it in the first place.
Our neighbors and friends
We do not make reCAP alone.
Plastek molds every cap here in Erie. McCarty Printing has printed our boxes since day one. Grand River, an employee owned shop in Ashtabula, makes our gaskets. And the crew at Keystone packs your order like it is their own.
Beyond our vendors are the friends, families, and customers who carried us from a Kickstarter idea to today. Some are still using the very first lid they backed, fourteen years later.