To wonder who’s Ridiculous idea that stupid piece of Plastic was…

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Yes you know the one I’m talking about. I don’t even have to mention the bane of my existence! Whenever you see anybody drinking from one of these, it’s awkward and unintuitive. What a ludicrous and quite frankly futile exercise in trying to save the planet.

I am of course talking about the piece of plastic on bottle lids for soft drinks, meaning you cannot easily drink out the bottle anymore without it snapping back in your face or grating over your skin. It’s like we are being guilted and shamed for this, plastic water bottles don’t contain it, just soft drink ones.

I personally can’t stand them! And don’t know anybody who sits and says they are a good idea…

I don’t think it’s that deep… hold it back with your finger. And don’t drink so many bottles of coke or whatever?

Do you mean the tamper evident seal ring?

I've never had one hit my face. You just pull it back far enough that it stays there.

No. They have recently installed a ‘planet saving device’ on all coke and soft drink bottles. It attaches the lid to the bottle at all times so when you are drinking from it if you aren’t paying closely guarded attention you get your face scraped by a barbed piece of plastic.

I wasn’t really asking for feedback on how many bottles of coke I drink thanks!

Also you can never properly screw the lid back in with this piece of plastic still attached.

I assume she means the way the ring now stays connected to the lid itself.

I just pull it off.

They've put these on the big bottles of sparkling water I buy. I snip them off with scissors.

Yes it’s being billed to us as ‘planet saving’. Much like a previous poster I am starting to take quite a delight in removing the lid from the bottle! It’s not convenient and I always make sure I recycle them. What pandemic are we living through whereby thousands upon millions of these bottle lids are filling our streams and rivers! That’s what I want to know

picture? I have no idea what this is!

Thanks, have never seen before and have now googled

https://www.coca-cola.com/gb/en/media-center/coca-cola-attached-caps-great-britain

It’s like we are being guilted and shamed for this Bit of an overreaction, it is just to prevent littering and make sure it ends up in the recycling.

It's on litre bottles of milk here too . Difficult to screw the cap back on as you say. And who wanders down the street swigging from a litre bottle of milk and throws the cap away? It's completely pointless.

Well, if you think about how many bottles of the stuff are sold every day...I'd say it probably is a problem. Microplastic pollution is a big thing.

I've actually only come across this once with a bottle of ginger ale. This was a one off and actually we don't drink anything fizzy so not an issue to us 😇

It's called the "Thunberg". No self respecting drinks bottle leaves the factory without one.

Those bottles see to have a leaking problem

Oh I agree OP. I always recycled bottle plus lid together anyway so the use of extra plastic to keep them permanently conjoined “for recycling” has absolutely baffled me. I just rip them off, dodge the spiky bits and then per usual put the lid back on to recycle.

Can't say it's ever posed an issue. Just held it back.

Silly reply.

Youre assuming that millions of bottler owners unscrew the lifsband discard of those separately. Just not true! Most people screw the lid back on before disposal. They are trying to solve a problem that isn’t there. I now actually remove the lid and I’m not careful about screwing it back on anymore (because it’s so difficult!) so if anything they’re just increasing the amount of litter and micro plastics that are going into the ground or into the oceans.

Small changes like this are excellent. Buy cans if you don’t like the new style bottles.

Youre assuming that millions of bottler owners unscrew the lifsband discard of those separately. Just not true! Most people screw the lid back on before disposal. They are trying to solve a problem that isn’t there.

Pretty sure they’ll have done more R&D on this than your anecdata.

I hate it too. Also the patronising "see if you can open this wrapper in one piece" thing they put on KitKat's now, because apparently it makes the plastic wrapper easier to recycle. Ignoring the fact that the paper and foil wrapper was much easier to open and to recycle.

Sorry but that’s not what “R&D” means.

@NoSquirrels where can I buy milk in a can?

Push it right back and it stays fixed out of the way. I like them. No more dropping the lids.