To hate the new attached bottle caps

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Honestly, it is a horrible design - the hanging cap makes it close to impossible to pour out a drink without it getting the liquid into the cap - meaning you need to wipe off the bottle after screwing it back on (if it's say milk or juice).
Also makes the flow more likely to go down the bottleneck too. Not to mention trying to drink out of the bottle with the cap still attached and getting in the way.
Pretty much you need both hands now for a simple task of pouring out or drinking out of a bottle !! One hand to keep the cap out of the way.
Just constantly annoying - I started cutting them off. I never lost a bottle cap in my life - who is this made for?

Apologies for the rant, but I am wondering what am I missing here.

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 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?

Agree it sounds like 1st world problem.
But really - attached cap is expected to stop people (who litter) to litter?
Not going to happen.

While there's still liquid in the bottle - one needs the cap, so it won't be discarded.
Once the bottle is empty - both the bottle and the cap will be discarded. People who bin things properly will continue to do so.
Those who don't will throw away both bottle and the cap next to the road - attached or not.

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.

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.

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 🙄

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

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.

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.

I'm for them in the eco sense, just not the leaking sense. I too have had bags/items ruined. It's made me take a flask or metal water bottle around a lot more so I guess in a roundabout way it's worked and I use less plastic!

I keep scissors in the car and snip them off.

Bloody stupid idea.

I struggle with dropping things, such as bottle caps, so I like them. I spill sports top bottles.
Same litter logic applied to canned soft drinks many years ago.

Biggest litter issue around here seems to be disposable vapes.

I just bend it right back and it stays out of the way. However I’m not a smoothie drinker and can imagine something with more consistency would make a mess.

Yes I also hate them

Having always taken my tetra to the recycling centre to recycle, i have always made them completely flat, and uses the lids to keep the air out.

These new lids REALLY annoy me too.

They're not exactly saving the planet if they don't close properly and ruin bags and their contents or, as I so often find, let a fizzy drink go flat.

I made DS1 a Japanese knot bag out of old bedding for when we buy lunch out because I was sick of things being soaked with apple juice because he couldn't get the lid back on properly. This can at least be chucked in the washer.

I really don’t get the hatred towards these caps - I just use one finger to pin it back when I pour. As a dyspraxic, they’re brill as I’m no longer fumbling the cap back on again and dropping it on the floor half the time 😂

I think I might be just be finding out this evening! 😳🫣

Have you seen the girl on TikTok blaming Jamie Oliver? It really tickled me

In theory they should snap back and hold out of the way while you pour but sometimes they don’t, or the lid swivels to the front and then the contents go everywhere. Then you can’t always line the lid up properly to get it properly screwed back on, so it leaks.

Good idea in theory but I just end up twisting the damned things off. They still get screwed back on when the bottle is recycled.

Yes they've been around for ages, but they still give me the rage. They are on large fruit juice bottles and milk bottles here too - they are ridiculously difficult to do back up after I've put 25ml of milk in my tea And who walks down the street swigging from a litre bottle of milk?

I take great pleasure in cutting them off and putting the caps and plastic threads separately into the recycling, in the hopes that the whole thing will be deemed a failure by the powers that be...

It's good that you don't have a problem with them.

I do and even more so now.

Especially after my Strokes, but even before then, I find them very difficult to get a good seal on them and they keep leaking, they just don't seem to lineup very well and certainly not easily.

Also, because of the strokes, I am fairly much attached to a bottle of water. I refill the bottle all day from Water. I keep in the fridge but I do use the disposable bottle every couple of days. I have changed brand to one that still(at the moment anyway) has a completely removable cap.

At the moment, I am unable to use a hard con continually reusable bottle & whilst I am doing my best to be environmentally friendly I also have to use things I can actually use 🤷🏻‍♀️

Jamming up the recycling machines with your loose bottle tops is just cost us all more money. It is very very doubtful that it will make manufacturing companies change back to removable lids when they have just had all the machine replaced to make attached lids.

I am sorry things are difficult for you. I’m glad you found an alternative that works for you.

Who is this made for? Marine life and wildlife who are ingesting a horrifically high amount of microplastics from all the tons of single-use plastic waste us humans produce.

Never had an issue with them.