For hating the new bottle tops

And now I will do too 🤣

Beach litter pickers have reported that it’s mostly bottle tops, not bottles, that they clean off the beach.

I wonder whether people also got so upset when canned beverages switched from pull-off tops to stay-on tops for the same reason...

That was an improvement though plus the lid coming off was useless as you can’t close a can once opened.

*HungryLittleCrocodile *
i am way past retirement age and have days where I cannot button my clothes without pain so yes there are days when I struggle but am lucky to have days when I don’t. I found them odd at first but soon discovered how to push the lid away and lift it up and back over to tighten it back sometimes with a rubber washing up glove or whatever, to help my grip on difficult days. I just wonder what age People are because of the radio programme, because I wonder if it has anything to do with the world we live in today that’s all.

They’re really irritating. Almost as bad as those tetrapaks with levered openers and a foil seal. They’re really shit.

But I suppose we’ll all have to get used to them. Like cookie warnings on every bloody website.

I hate them, the dc never put the lids back on properly so they leak & the are just annoying to drink from. Hate paper straws too.

I can’t open them (weak wrist after breaking it a few years ago). I end up slicing them off quite dangerously with a sharp knife. It will no doubt go horribly wrong st some point.

Well apparently (according to a previous poster) the recycling machines lose the lids, so they don't get recycled, and this is why they're attaching them to the bottle now. Don't know if that's correct or not, but someone said this further back in the thread. This is (apparently) why the lids are attached to lots of bottles now - even large OJ bottles that we keep in the fridge for a week or more.

Whatever about their purpose to stop people throwing the caps/tops of bottles they are drinking from on the ground, why does the same system need to be on the tops of 2l milk cartons, or 2l orange Juice, that are clearly going to be used in a home, put back in fridge, the bin is just there... People don't tend to litter their own kitchen, but it's almost impossible to pour Milk on cereal or a glass of orange Juice now. Hate those tops almost as much as the 15cent recycling levy on all cans and bottles in Ireland - but that's a rant for another night

There's 'hatred on them' because they're annoying and confusing and difficult for some people. And my age is mid 50s ... What's your point?! I find them difficult to open and difficult to put the lid back on, and it's awkward to drink out of. I have quite painful joints in my hands/fingers, and am finding them a bit of a faff and a fiddle, and jarring for my joints.

Lots of people have got disabilities and conditions and things like dyspraxia and are struggling with them. It's really patronising, rather ableist, and quite rude to say 'what age of these people who are complaining?' Like suggesting they're a toddler or something!

Yes, I do think it's really good that they're trying to help the environment. and I do hope people get used to them, but they really, really need to make the lids easier to open and close, the strip holding the lid on needs to be longer, and it all needs to be more user friendly. So many people complaining cannot be wrong, so I don't think this patronising, snide, offensive attitude is helping anyone.

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DH showed me this trick a few weeks ago. Game changer.

I was whaat but It's to stop them floating into the sea.
A bit inconvenient but there you go

First thing I do is rip it off, so annoying

I understand the need for them (although I don't think I've ever in my life thrown a plastic bottle away without its lid attached!) but I do feel the design could be better. My kids (10 and 7) can never manage to get the lid back on straight, so it invariably leaks - this was never a problem for them with the older detachable lids.

I don't mind them on one use type bottles but it's annoying on my bottle of squash
I'm not likely to bin the lid as well, I need it!

They were vaguely annoying until I worked out how to operate them but now it's fine, preferable even

It's a EU requirement apparently and not worth manufacturing special UK top. BUT if you press the top until it clicks it doesn't flip in your face. Heard that tip on the radio!

I'm genuinely surprised by the hatred on here! I really like them... Not for environmental reasons really (although that's obviously a really good thing), but because I was always putting lids down and not being able to find them, knocking them into the floor and losing them etc. It's neater and easier. And as PPs have said, as long as you snap the lid right back and move it to the other side of the bottle, it doesn't interfere with drinking from the bottle at all.

I love the new tops

Means the top won't accidentally drop on the floor

You can buy a refillable purpose made water bottle and use it over and over for months.

Innocent smoothies have always been a bit tricky I think. Some tops seem to be sealed shut a bit fiercely.

I’m baffled. There was even a programme on BBC about this hatred of the new bottle tops. What age are these people who struggle and hate them? They’re just new. Humans can adapt to them very quickly, they are simple and just need common sense. One step forward for recycling and the seas. Come on people you can do this!

I haven’t tried one of those sorry- I meant the generic bottle of pop/ water like you get with a meal deal

The innocent smoothie ones? I haven't tried any others yet

Jarring. I just cut them off.