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[Stere]

I often just pull them off as find them annoying

 

 

 

Google answers:

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the Tethered Cap Law

 

Why Do Plastic Bottles Have Such Annoying Caps Now?

FOODCHAINMAGAZINE.COM

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The EU has taken a significant step in its fight against plastic waste by mandating that all plastic bottle caps remain...

 

 

[doobin]

I bought a few packs of cheap fizzy water from Bookers yesterday. These caps have a little bit of plastic reinforcement on the hinge, which acts like an overcentre latch. Push it past that and it's out the way and rigidly stays out the way.

 

I hope whoever invented that gets rich. This is what should have been mandated, not a little bit of sharp plastic that lets the lid flop around all over the place.

 

I think people (myself included) are only pissed off with it because it was badly implemented with little standardisation. If all the bottles were like the Bookers fizzy water there would be barely any complaints. 'Sports drinks' have had similar caps for years, and nobody complains about them because they're well designed.

[nepia]

So it's an anti-litter move. If it works that's a good thing despite it being EU driven 👍

Thanks those who have enlightened me

[Steven P]

As above, Peds wants us to disagree and fight with him, another EU incentive that we are forced to follow (being the smaller market), a good idea but EU.... what did they ever do for us.... (same as all small device charges in EU will be USB C to reduce waste... means frustratingly I'll only need 1 charging cable in the house and not 17 different ones)

[openspaceman]

2 minutes ago, nepia said:

So it's an anti-litter move. If it works that's a good thing despite it being EU driven 👍

Thanks those who have enlightened me

On the same theme; when one is out on a walk and decides to eat a cereal or protein bar why does a corner pull of, leaving a small piece of plastic wrapper separate from the main piece.

[nepia]

You haven't had the course. You're supposed to pull the seam open, not rip off a corner.

Du-uh!

 

 

🤣

[openspaceman]

33 minutes ago, nepia said:

You haven't had the course. You're supposed to pull the seam open, not rip off a corner.

Du-uh!

 

 

🤣

Then the bits of biscuit fly everywhere.

[nepia]

Oh for goodness sake - there's just no pleasing some people

 

Just book yourself onto a wrapper opening course and live crumb free

[sime42]

At least the crumbs are biodegradable.

[Johnsond]

Unbelievably this apparently is the best that the UK has got to offer, twice sacked from government positions , fast tracked his boyfriend’s citizenship. Packed off to Europe on a good earner and a lord to boot. 
Now the UK ambassador to the USA a country that has voted in a government that stands for the exact opposite of everything Mandleson has spent his odious existence promoting.

He must have some serious shit on someone.