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…

Do your own research. You can evaluate if you think it’s credible then.

Perhaps you should join one of the regular local community beach cleans and see what is collected. 🙄

There’s just not much evidence of it that anyone is producing is there?

What I’m more concerned about is why don’t they remove all single use plastics and replace with a suitable alternative? Oh wait because these aren’t single use plastics and can be easily recycled!

It’s no different to those bottles with a flip cap like lucozade sport. Just hold the cap back as you drink

I’m getting the impression you don’t know much about much, OP.

They’re not excellent for people with certain disabilities, my husband can’t drink from cans, he can drink from a bottle after opening it with an aid. The new bottles can’t be opened with a bottle opener, even if they could, he can’t then move the lid out of the way to drink.

The vast majority of waste plastic is nets and other equipment associated with the fishing industry. Most microplastics in the sea are from the same.

I’d rather go without than buy drinks in a plastic bottle these days.

My local Council won't take bottle lids. So we have to detach them and bin the lids.
Anyone who believes the new marketing and throws the whole bottle and lid into the recycling ends up contaminating the load and it all needs to be taken to landfill.

At least, that's what the council tells us.

Thanks for posting about this. I thought I'd list my grip strength when I couldn't easily detach it by hand recently as I've done previously. It all makes sense now. And yes, totally with you on this, OP. Life's hard enough without having that or the lid poking in your face when you just want a relaxing drink.

Aha - I’m not going mad! I’m sure that’s what I’ve been told as well.

It will actually make it harder to sell these at concerts as I many venues that I've attended, you can buy the 500ml bottles of soft drinks but the bar takes the lid off the bottle so that either the lid or the whole bottle can't be used as missiles during the concert (and believe me I'm not attending concerts where throwing bottles would generally be a thing that is done). I don't think the response that @Hungrycaterpillarsmummy gave was a silly response. Equally valid to be honest.

Unless you are an anteater I really don’t see the issue with the design of the caps

They are the work of the devil!

I hate these attached tops. I have nerve damage in one hand and cannot take the top off a bottle of tonic water now and then put the cap back on without cutting that thing off. ( This is not a single use drinking bottle eg for a festival , it is a bottle I would like to recap and put back in the fridge. ) I too scissor the thing off.

The mediocre male who decided this, seems really pleased with himself.

Stupid bloody things. I ended up covered in diet coke on the train because the bottle fell over, and the lid hadn't screwed back on properly.

Volvic water bottles have them too! It's really annoying!

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

Er....yes it does. What do you think the R stands for?

Companies don't implement a major change to their packaging on a whim, they run loads of trials and RESEARCH beforehand.

They’re doing it as marketing. So they can keep pumping sludge into rivers and lakes but unwitting consumers think ‘oh well aren’t they environmentally friendly!’ Even though they are not

Pour the drink into a glass.
Children need to be taught in school how to drink from a glass.
Obviously they can’t expect their feckless parents to do it.
Bottle fed into adulthood. FFS.

Do not drink in the street.

I knew what you meant before you open the thread. Just twist and you can snap it off. I don't under why it's there though can someone please explain.

What would you propose they use instead of 'single use plastic' ?, the plastic in plastic bottles like these is PET and can be recycled.
Companies can only do so much then it comes down to the consumer and governments to do the rest, we also have to look at this globally not just on a local basis (by local I mean Europe as a continent) . Recycling facilities vary massively by country. You might not see huge amounts of plastic our and beaches and in our oceans here but some areas of Asia have huge issues with this. 80% of plastic is not recycled currently, this needs to change.
If you would like to read more about plastics and recyclability then the Ellen McArthur foundation is a good source.

To the poster whose council doesn't take black/dark plastics - this was because manufacturers needed to add optical brighteners to the plastic which then cause problems at the reutlingen facilities but there is a solution to this now and most manufacturers should be making dark plastic that way now

I yank them straight off