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Tethered plastic caps (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

I know they're supposed to be good for the environment. But... Holy smokes they drive me up the wall. They really do!

I had no trouble adapting when aluminum can pull-tabs got replaced by push-tabs, because it was pretty much the same movement, and I could see the immediate advantage of not getting cut by a pull-tab.

But the tethered cap is fighting decades of muscle memory in me: I'm used to taking the cap off with one hand and keeping it there while taking a swig with the other. Now I unscrew the cap with one hand, but I still have to hold the cap so it's out of the way. It feels like drinking in handcuffs each and every time...

So unlike the pull-tab, the tethered plastic bottle cap is one of those compulsory eco solutions that constantly make you feel ever-so-slightly more miserable all the time, and I hate that because ecology only works when it brings something of value both to people and to the environment.

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[-] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Plastic is recycleable aswell. In Finland like 98% of plastic bottles are returned to the stores and new bottles are made of them. Glass is heavy and fragile and I don't remember ever seeing a glass bottle that's bigger than half litre or one that you can put the cap back on.

[-] mac@infosec.pub 2 points 8 months ago

Glass is infinitely recyclable though, plastic deteriorates regularly overtime

[-] Dyf_Tfh@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago

Except PET from plastics bottles which is the only common plastic that is fully depolymerizable/ repolymerizable, instead of simply being remeltable.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Glass weight quite a lot which might make them worse for their transport 🤷

It's also obviously more expensive for everyone.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Not to worry. One can cork their bottle for all the sanitary and convenience benefits of keeping a variety of corks lying around and definitely not breeding bacteria in them.

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Replaceable caps definitely exist, they are common on glass soft drink bottles where I am. They look just like the plastic lids but in thin sheet metal, complete with perforations and ring.

Some of the screwtop beer bottle style reseal pretty well too.

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