For hating the new bottle tops

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What is going on?
Why were we not told that from now on we will never drink from a bottle without the half-cocked still-attached top spraying water/ milk/ juice all over our fronts?

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!

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

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!

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.

First thing I do is rip it off, so annoying

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

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

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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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

*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.

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.

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

And now I will do too 🤣

It’s counterproductive for me, because I generally use bottles multiple times, and only throw them in the recycle bin when they’re pretty battered. Now I have to cut the kids off and trim off the sharp plastic edges before I can re-use them, which is a bit of a pain.

I thought it was an EU thing. We've had it in Ireland for a while. Thought Brexit might mean the UK would not have to do it?

I found it quite annoying at first but getting used to it now. I can understand the environmental reasoning behind it. Maybe we're all a bit clumsy in my house but there has definitely been more milk spilled here since these tops were introduced. Although in the past DH never put the lid back on drinks, so thankfully these new lids have put an end to that.

What happens to all the tops they take off the bottles when you go to Wembley for a concert or football? Do they recycle those somewhere?

I don't mind them, but they are a bugger to get off when you want a spare lid for Wembley and other places that nick your lid.

I completely hate them too. More people will be snapping them off than ever before, so how is that helping?

Some of them you can open it and then pull the lid back across the top so it points down the other side rather than sticks up on its original side.
To be honest, it’s better for recycling and stops/reduces people just dropping them…it’s only necessary because people don’t take responsibility themselves.

Exactly! That's what I have been doing. I wasn't aware it was for environmental reasons - so I will ensure the lid is screwed back on very firmly now before I pop it in the plastic waste bin. (Just as it would be if it was attached.) I think as long as you pop the lid back on firmly when you're done, I don't see why you can't just snap it off while you use the bottle/while you're drinking out of it.

aside

Does anyone else share my hate for the tern "beverages". When did it become so common/take off as a term?? I don't
"offer someone a beverage" I offer a drink.

Beverage beverage beverage... Shudder.

They are very difficult to get off.