Rinse and recycle clear plastic lids.
Why are the lids okay but not the black plastic?

The reason we say no to black plastic is because recycling facilities sort plastics by bouncing a beam of light off them. Since black plastic absorbs light, it can’t be sorted and goes straight through the system and off to landfill or incineration.

Most current (and past) black plastic use carbon to make the black, which absorbs the beam so the reader can’t identify the resin. The same is true for really dark colors in general (dark grays and sometimes navy).