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To hate the new attached bottle caps

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Hocuspoc · 19/03/2025 19:48

Honestly, it is a horrible design - the hanging cap makes it close to impossible to pour out a drink without it getting the liquid into the cap - meaning you need to wipe off the bottle after screwing it back on (if it's say milk or juice).
Also makes the flow more likely to go down the bottleneck too. Not to mention trying to drink out of the bottle with the cap still attached and getting in the way.
Pretty much you need both hands now for a simple task of pouring out or drinking out of a bottle !! One hand to keep the cap out of the way.
Just constantly annoying - I started cutting them off. I never lost a bottle cap in my life - who is this made for?

Apologies for the rant, but I am wondering what am I missing here.

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Snugglemonkey · 20/03/2025 10:13

sanityisamyth · 19/03/2025 20:50

This. The separated lids fall through the machine which sorts the rubbish out so they didn’t get recycled. Ripping them off undoes all the work that has gone into designing and manufacturing them to be attached.

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Then I think fixing the machine issue would be a better solution! I separate them because of spillages and drinks going flat. This stops the wastage created by the stupid caps. Even if a cap is not recycled, it is better that than all the extra bottles being used.

BeholdOurButterStinketh · 20/03/2025 10:04

AllLopsided · 19/03/2025 22:44

Yes they've been around for ages, but they still give me the rage. They are on large fruit juice bottles and milk bottles here too - they are ridiculously difficult to do back up after I've put 25ml of milk in my tea Hmm And who walks down the street swigging from a litre bottle of milk?

I take great pleasure in cutting them off and putting the caps and plastic threads separately into the recycling, in the hopes that the whole thing will be deemed a failure by the powers that be...

That's even more ridiculous if they put them on large bottles that you only normally use at home.

The main argument is around smaller 'one serving' bottles that people often drink when out and about; what on earth can be the justification for a large milk carton that you take from the fridge, open, use a bit and then close before returning to the fridge - or large squash bottles?

joanofaardvark · 20/03/2025 10:04

DappledThings · 20/03/2025 10:01

I don't get the problem with them. You just push it to the other side if you want to drink from a bottle and you can still close it, just lift it a little higher to get the angle.

But the ‘juice’ stays gathered in the cap, whatever its position…. Until you tip it to drink it when it drips down your front.

Gowlett · 20/03/2025 10:04

I always just rip them off.
Then screw them back on.

DappledThings · 20/03/2025 10:01

I don't get the problem with them. You just push it to the other side if you want to drink from a bottle and you can still close it, just lift it a little higher to get the angle.

MinticecreamwithaCherryonTop · 20/03/2025 09:57

Hayley1256 · 19/03/2025 23:54

Hate them! They've put them on milkshake bottles so when you drink it on the go from the bottle you have to watch out for the little bit in the lid spilling on you! I rip them all off now

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Yes, and once you've ripped it off, there is a little sharp part that can catch your mouth. I will try the tipping it all of the way back as some pps are suggesting. I have also had some where the plastic bottle is so thin and flimsy, that the force required just to flip the cap to open it, means it splashes all over.

bloodredfeaturewall · 20/03/2025 09:57

yabu
I love them. no more dropped cals.
if you push them all the way they don't flip onto your nose.

FlowerFlowerFlower · 20/03/2025 09:41

Yes I hate them and my kids struggle to put them on properly then the drink spills 😒

Smallsalt · 20/03/2025 09:36

Also the new rim round the top of the cap means you can't grip the lid. They are so tight that I can't get them open. I am thinking of getting a gadget from one of the old people catalogues!

PluckedOutOfThinAir · 20/03/2025 09:34

I hate them too. I don't often buy plastic bottles but when I do i drink straight from the bottle and the cap is annoying. The worst is that it's so.difficult to close them again leading to leakages and if you are having anything sparkling it loses all its fizz because I can't close them properly.

Ihad2Strokes · 20/03/2025 09:33

PinataHeeHaw · 20/03/2025 09:07

Don't you pour the liquid with the attached cap at the top so liquid doesn't get caught there?

I think people mean from when they have shaken smoothies and the like

It's one aspect that hasn't bothered me because I don't buy that kind of drink

Ihad2Strokes · 20/03/2025 09:30

Sharptonguedwoman · 19/03/2025 23:04

I am sorry things are difficult for you. I’m glad you found an alternative that works for you.

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Thank you 😊

PinataHeeHaw · 20/03/2025 09:07

Don't you pour the liquid with the attached cap at the top so liquid doesn't get caught there?

MissRoseDurward · 20/03/2025 09:03

What with the attached caps and the artificial sweeteners, is it all part of a secret campaign to stop us buying fizzy drinks?

joanofaardvark · 20/03/2025 08:50

Twice now I’ve ended up with drips of smoothie down my front which have come out of the attached cap - unsure how I’m supposed to avoid this?! Stick my tongue in the cap once opened? (Awkward and unpleasant) Just accept I’ll be wearing a bit of my drink from now on? The attached cap doesn’t bother me for water and I don’t drink fizzy drinks but for something coloured and sticky on the move, when I previously would just ‘grab and go’ - it’s put me right off buying the product.

WoahThreeAces · 20/03/2025 08:45

I really like them. I like how they click right back and then I never lose the lid.

fluffiphlox · 20/03/2025 08:45

Don’t you just firmly click them back out of the way and carry on as normal?

luckylavender · 20/03/2025 08:43

Hocuspoc · 19/03/2025 19:48

Honestly, it is a horrible design - the hanging cap makes it close to impossible to pour out a drink without it getting the liquid into the cap - meaning you need to wipe off the bottle after screwing it back on (if it's say milk or juice).
Also makes the flow more likely to go down the bottleneck too. Not to mention trying to drink out of the bottle with the cap still attached and getting in the way.
Pretty much you need both hands now for a simple task of pouring out or drinking out of a bottle !! One hand to keep the cap out of the way.
Just constantly annoying - I started cutting them off. I never lost a bottle cap in my life - who is this made for?

Apologies for the rant, but I am wondering what am I missing here.

It's possible to twist it off. Quite easily. I realise that isn't the point, but if it bothers you that much then do that.

BobbyBiscuits · 20/03/2025 08:43

They're rubbish for coke because they don't keep in the fizziness. I try to drink it from a straw (by order of my dentist) but the lid gets in the way. I also sometimes feel like it's practically ripping my hand to shreds trying to open it for the first time?!

WingBingo · 20/03/2025 08:40

Just click them! Once you hear the click they stay out of the way

goingtotown · 20/03/2025 08:09

KittenPause · 19/03/2025 23:20

They’re not on my 4 pint milk bottles

They’re on water bottles.

ErrolTheDragon · 20/03/2025 08:07

I like them on balance, we’ve dropped bottle tops in the dirt during walks a time or two too often.
I find they’re no bother if I break one side of the attachment so they’re just hanging by one thread - would be better if they were designed that way I think.

Sodthesystem · 20/03/2025 07:50

I'm all for helping the environment but the thing is, as this post highlights, they piss people off soo much that they just pull them off. Chances are they are then difficult to rescrew on so sometimes ppl don't bother. Which defeats the purpose of them in the first place.

I'm sure lots of people don't put them back on, in protest, too. Which I think is fair. Not fair that the environment bares the cost, but fair that we say no to being micromanaged and risking our things ruined every time we buy a meal deal.

Hayley1256 · 19/03/2025 23:54

Hate them! They've put them on milkshake bottles so when you drink it on the go from the bottle you have to watch out for the little bit in the lid spilling on you! I rip them all off now

LittleCharlotte · 19/03/2025 23:53

cherish123 · 19/03/2025 23:19

They are difficult to pull off. You now have to cut them.

How strange!

I'm not bothered by them at all although I rarely buy bottled drinks. When I do have a bottle it pleases me that they're being made less litter -y. Can't say I've never noticed a problem with the lids.