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?

I don't think I ever say that, or know anyone who does. It is jarring though! 😖

Snap one of the two tags off, it makes it easier to put the top back on tight.

can I have a photo please as I have absolutely no idea what lids you are all talking about?

Same ... thought i had closed the lid. It leaked all over my laptop. Pissed off isnt the word for it!!
Some dickhead would have got a big fat bonus for designing these.

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Whole segment on Radio 4 the other day. I'm not a buyer of drinks in plastic bottles so have yet to come across an attached one, but apparently once opened. you push the lid as far as you can and it 'clicks' so it stays away from your face.

Ah, yes, because people with certain disabilities either don’t need to drink in your world, or simply don’t exist.

Care to explain how someone with arthrogryposis can easily open and close these bottles? Can common sense now cure disabilities?

Those of you reusing plastic bottles, just buy an actual reusable water bottle. Don't get your attitude about that.

Just snap cap off. The only time I probably leave the cap attached is on the plane as lost the cap before and Jet 2’s cup holders don’t hold bottles. Which was awkward.

I hate it as well. I can never get it out back on properly. Now I immediately pull the cap off. Much better

Am I in the only council area that says you cant recycle the lids so they must be removed?

Silly me 🙈 genuinely thought Lidl lemonade bottles had a manufacturing fault with their bottles all summer...now I know why! Thanks OP for starting this thread.

What I find disappointing is the lack of thought how this would affect those of us who may ALREADY struggle with opening bottles.

I'll see if I can manage one of them thank you

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/so-thats-why-we-have-those-new-attached-caps-on-drinks-bottles_uk_664b18c7e4b08c68e7be6fd4

These. Only the smoothie ones are worse

They’re no different to the old bottle tops though except the lid is attached?

And? We're telling you we struggle with them.

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They’re completely different, they’re a third shallower, the mechanism to open them is completely different, the mechanism to drink from is completely different, the mechanism to close them is completely different. They’re too shallow to be used with a disability aid, they can’t be used by those with only one functioning arm/hand, they’re aren’t any devices that can keep them held open allowing you to drink from them, and there aren’t any devices available that can place the lid back on securely and then tighten it.

I don't have a problem with them except the big lumpy bit on the side hurts my delicate hand when i try unscrewing it and sometimes i struggle getting it lined up right to screw back on, i test by squeezing the bottle a bit and if its solid i know its worked if it squeezes a bit of air out i know its not lined up so redo it. I was thrilled the day i discovered the bend lid back to snap in place though.

They are very irritating. They also make me retroactively irritated with all the idiots who weren't recycling the lids with the bottles in the first place and whose fault it is that we've been landed with inferior products.

(If you don't screw the lid back on when you put the bottle in the recycling, wouldn't the dregs of the drink make your bag/box/bin all sticky and unpleasant?)

This it is a false comparison, probably the best example I have read for a while.

The new cans were far easier to operate when they were introduced, the lever action is more efficient and comfortable. I go to countries which still use ring pulls and am always surprised how much harder they can be. So that example was a win win for both consumer and environment.

These days it seems like no-one cares if the consumer loses out. All means are justified by the end

This is what’s known as ‘innovation’ in capitalist systems, now the lids get recycled with the bottles, yes thanks so much really saving the planet there, all those bottle tops were the things really destroying the environment. Makes virtually zero impact to the problem of plastic waste, a prime example of tokenistic greenwashing. We can all continue guzzling Fanta with a clear conscience, corporate pats on the back and dividends all round.

Paper straws are another level of stupid. Lots of glue dissolved in my drink, no thanks