To hate the new attached bottle caps

If they come up with a better design that allows me to screw the bottle lid back on properly, I’ll happily stop ripping them off.

Every time a bottle has leaked, I was sure I’d put the lid back on properly.

Fair play to people that manage to use them with no issue. I’ve tried and I can’t. It’s a crappy design that clearly quite a few people are finding a struggle, judging by this thread.

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.

I am not sure how long they were a thing before I realised I was not just being really unlucky with dodgy caps

I rip them off. Have done ever since I used them the first time, thought I’d closed it properly and found I hadn’t so drink leaked everywhere in the car 🙄

Me and DD have discovered that they are REALLY easy to twist off. So provided you can get the bottle open in the first place, just twist them off.

Totally agree with all the comments about making the bottle hard to open and really difficult to do back up properly. The last straw for me was a bottle pissing all over my bag as the lid was slightly wonky.

All of the bastards get twisted off now. We always recycle anyway.

You’ve got to pull them down far enough for them to click.

beach litter pickers have noticed a lot less of them, so I hear.

I was so tempted to make a rahty video about them just today.

Fucking sick of them leaking.

I ruined a bag and everything in it on a trip because I was tired and didn't pay enough attention to whether it was on right once.

What kind of mutants weren't putting the lid back on the bottles to throw them away in the first place anyway?

Also, is it the greens we have to thank for this hand holding shit?

Pull them until they are hanging by a single strand then they don't get in the way and don't prevent the bottle from being sealed properly when the lid is screwed back on.
The problem with lids can be that if someone separated it but still put it for recycling it would fall through the sieves and not be recycled so this way ensures more cap material still gets recycled.

I've had a few leaks too, hence I now rip the lids off.

Bloody cable ties are also a massive litter problem. <<rages>>

I don’t mind them, but I agree they are a little harder to open, like they’re fused too tight. I unscrew and make sure to push the cap open and back so it ”clicks” open and then I have no issues pouring or drinking.

Bottle cap separated from bottle is harder to pick up, dispose of and recycle. I don't find them a problem, honestly. In the great scheme of things, they are designed to help the environment.

How do they stop people dropping litter?

I'm surprised you've only now come across this OP, the caps have been around for ages and they are blooming annoying

I'm guessing not or the design wouldn't have been implemented and I think I read bright colour caps cause a problem for birds who see them as food. Also better for recycling.

Honestly, I can't see the problem with them.

Yes! They leak and mess up my bags, defeating the purpose of being a resealable bottle in the first place.

Ugh yes. I bought a (bright purple) smoothie you have to shake before drinking (a small one, drinking from the bottle). It was dark, in the cinema, and the little bit that got shaken into the attached lid dripped all down my front.

How? If you drop bottle tops in the street surely you’re not going to care about chucking the whole bottle?

Don’t most people keep the top on the bottle and dispose of them both together anyway when they’ve finished?

I too cut them off, but the idea is apparently to stop the caps being separated from the bottles for recycling purposes.

We save all of our bottle caps and lolly sticks for our local school, to help with their art supplies anyway, so they're still being recycled, just in a different way.

Just twist them off 🤷‍♀️

Agree op they’re awful. And pulling them off leaves a horrible sharp bit.

They're a pita to put back on ,I cut them off.

I hate them too. More than once had a bottle leak all over my bag because they are so hard to reattach properly. I always recycle including lids

1st world problem. They are there to stop people dropping litter.

For me i can never get them to close properly so they leak. I've tried pulling them off completely but then you get long sharp bits of plastic i keep catching myself on.

God I hate them!

I find the design is very tricky to get a bottle opened at all, it seems like the lid is entirely fused together and took a ridiculous amount of strength before I gave up, I only managed to get one bottle open when I got home and ran a sharp knife around the join.

I then find, once you have got it open the lid doesn’t want to sit firmly closed as it’s out of alignment, so I’ve had lots of leaks in bags with drinks I thought were closed.