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.

Also, all these lidless hummus pots, coleslaw etc - has anyone else noticed that the expensive lines still have lids? Apparently only povvos are required to make adjustments for the sake of the environment. If you buy co op finest there is no need.

Lidl branches in Glasgow have had these machines since last summer, taking cans and plastic drinks bottles. As long as the item has a recognised bar code, you get 5p back for every item.

I’m totally with you here, we have just been on holiday and found them so frustrating when wanting to drink out the bottle, or pour from it. Either people are happy to recycle or they’re not - I don’t think this will make a difference.

any recommendations of brands that don’t have them?!

I hate them too.

It would depend what drink you're looking for. If it is orange pop for example, Fanta have them, Tango have the old school screw tops (well they did last time I checked. I don't drink pop often).

They're not at all difficult to manage.

Thank you Minticecream. Very happy to stick with Tango Fruit Twist!

officially it's called a "tethered cap" and was EU directive to help pollution in the sea. The major bottle producers, such as coca cola etc decided to keep the legislation for the UK as well as their EU supplies.

I'm in the bottling industry 😀

I find they make it harder to open and close the bottles. I have severe arthritis in my hands and sometimes cannot open them at all, I also find it difficult to get them on straight again as well.

Iabsolutely hate them. A number of times, I haven't quite finished a drink. Close the top back on and when I retrieve it from my bag, my newspaper and/or diary is sodden! Last year's diary went mouldy!!!

I think some people here are talking about different caps - the click-on ones.

My post is about the screw tops that now hang by a plastic thread and wobble around constantly being in the way.

That's not the cap I am talking about.
I am talking about is about screw on caps that are hanging by a thread and wobbling around the bottle opening.

It’s to reduce littering and ensure that the caps are recycled with the bottle.

Just like captive ringpulls on cans which induced a huge amount of whinging when they were first introduced but now everyone just accepts.

I shake it to mix the pulp into the liquid - can’t really avoid doing it unless I want a watery drink with thick lumps at the end!

If you pull them back over the opening of the bottle they tuck down the side and out the way.
Unscrew, flip back (which is as far as most people get then poke themselves in the nose) then grab cap and pull it back over the top of the opening so that it lays flat down the other side.

I hate them but this helps.
Apologies if its been said before, havent RTFT

Yes, this is the type I was thinking of too. The tops with the annoying bit of plastic to keep them attached. I was wondering what people were meaning when they were talking about pushing it all of the way back, and thought I was overlooking something!😂
The issue with the other click ones is opening them from sealed, without an explosion.

But we have brexited and therefore are no longer at the mercy of those woke Eurocrats in Brussels. Isn't going against that an act of treason or similar?

I for one would be happy to see such charges brought against drinks manufacturers.

I know you are being facetious but I’m always bemused by people who think that if there is no law to mandate something, then that thing must be unlawful. See it all the time on here.

I rip the cap off as soon as it’s open. They’re extremely annoying

Did they do any user testing?

I find them hard to open and hard to close so fizzy pop goes flat more quickly ( I guess that sells more product but adds to the recycling mountain). Also they have sharp edges that cut my fingers.

I keep a dedicated snipping tool in my kitchen so that I can completely remove the nuisances then replace it with an old ‘normal’ cap. I made DH turn out the wheelie bin when I inadvertantly recycled it. I will cry when I finally lose/break it.

Purchase a bottle of tango, pretty sure they still have the old screw top, then keep it in.

Thanks for the heads up. Will do 😀

They are meant to clip back.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/people-realising-those-attached-bottle-060005317.html

Those are still the ones I'm talking about. You can still push them right back on themselves so they aren't pushing against your nose. And you can still replace them by pulling them up a little higher.

Ok then perhaps there are variations, I can assure there are many where the cap once unscrewed just hangs loosely on the side on a single piece of plastic - longer than in your suggested post, and away from the bottle opening - and you can not make those caps 'stay back' (or click, or really make them 'stay: anywhere). They just hang there and whichever way you turn the bottle sideways to pour out the drink, the force of gravity places the cap exactly below the flow of the liquid. (Unless you hold the cap away with your other hand)