My girlfriend can’t screw them back on properly so right now she only uses each drinks bottle once
I hate the things so much because they hurt to use, can’t really be used one-handed and also make it difficult to drink from the bottle because of the weird angles they implicate.
So I’ve been cutting the caps off and cutting the little limbs off and making what was previously one piece of plastic into three, which I obviously also hate doing.
In the past I would always screw the lid back on before binning it, either to trap the air out or for the sake of completeness, so in my particular case this policy is very much the worst of all worlds, I hope the data shows that I’m an edge case though if they’re passing it into law.
I’m still flabbergasted that neither France,
the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria nor Poland have Pfand (aka a money back deposit thing) for plastic bottles. It’s such an integrated part of my life, that I wonder why other countries haven’t adopted it.I mean that’s less stupid than “Paper Straws”
Pasta straws for the win. They are much better than paper straws in that they’re still biodegradable and they don’t go limp after a few sips. Have been wondering if they pose a risk to people suffering from gluten allergies/intollerances.
If you cannot stop the bleeding, reduce it until you can
There’s a reason the saying goes “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”
Reducing comes first, then reuse what you can, and recycle what you can’t.
Refuse > Reduce > Reuse > Repurpose > Recycle
5 Rs rule
What’s the difference between Refuse and Reduce here? I always took Reduce to mean using as little plastic as possible, which to m3 would include refusing the use of single-use plastics.
Same with Reuse and Repurpose: Reuse it however you can, regardless of its original purpose.
3 Rs has the rhetoric benefit of being a tricolon, which helps with keeping it concise and memorable.
Would you like a plastic bag for your shopping?
Refuse: No thanks.
Reduce: I’ll take just 1 bag and stuff it all in there, don’t need 2.
Repurpose: it’s ok because I’ll use this bag as a bin liner.
Oh, that’s why every beverage now has these shitty caps. Worth it if it helps fight pollution tho
well, it is just annoying
If you can’t outright solve a problem you shouldn’t try to improve the situation >:(
How is this improving the situation. Do people only throw away the caps? I think this is just some stupid law so that they can say they tried. I still think soda cans are just a better solution and make it mandatory that companies recycle their own waste.
I still think soda cans are just a better solution
That actually sounds like a good idea to me, or you could make them similar in design to those water-bottles that have the cap meant to stay with the bottle, shown in:
this image (branding removed)
Whereas the existing design is similar to the old pull tabs that were on cans which caused ecological damage when people discarded them on the ground.
I wish they’d instead go after the big companies doing the majority of the damage, but I suppose this’s where the cards lay. (For now)
Or just introduce the Pfand system Europe wide
It sucks so much to not be able to throw cans into recycling and be done with it.
Every week or so I carry some stinky bag of beer cans to these machines and I hate it.
Other countries should not be forced to implement this.
Am I the only one who loves the new cap design?
It’s fucking annoying and it’s completely backwards. The cap is constantly in the way when I try to pour the contents into a glass, so shit spills everywhere. I just snip the plastic umbilical cord with some scissors or rip the cap off.
Another nonsensical bill. Add it to the pile.
Wouldn’t that prevent people from refilling the bottles?
No. It just prevents the lid to get “lost”.
I think it’s about more than that. Where I love, the caps and bottles are made out of different plastics. Most recycling stations here only accept plastic bottles without their caps, because the caps cannot be recycled. Forcing the caps to be part of the bottle essentially forces it to be of the same plastic. Or that’s how I understand it at least, so the entirety of the bottle can be recycled, and so the unrecyclable caps don’t end up everywhere creating microplastics as they slowly break down.
Oh maybe I haven’t looked into it. I just had some bottles with fixed cap and talked from my user experience.
Can imagine it must be a pain to use.
Yes. And it’s also a hinderance when you want to pour it into a glass.
