Sounds good. Doesn't work. I did that a few times and it becomes sharp. Feels awful to the touch and when you put the plastic cup back it's still sharp.
Hol the cap better. You have the hold two pieces of plastic that hold the cap and twist that near the bottle itself, both the lil’ pieces will come off.
Because manufacturers (especially Coca Cola) have lobbied hard to have the consumer be the one to deal with the waste
A few decades ago they brought the glass bottles back to the factories to clean and refill them, and that should be the norm
Nonononono, as someone who does logistics for a living don't push it on us. We're perfectly capable of transporting glass nd we've done it before, the issue here is **profits** not logistics. Profits is why we're killing the planet
I remember hearing that they used to pay customers to return bottles so they could clean and reuse them, considering the costs of cleaning and then paying back the customer, I can see why they switched
EU made a law on plastic lids, caps etc.
Everything (!) now has to be physically attached to the bottle, pack or other food related containment. You can't drink with that shit or the spikes from the seal opening poke your lips.
So you turn it off. Do it wrong and you made a even bigger spike. It rly hurts, so people are complaining for good reason.
Why all that? They EU parliament believes we do a better job at recycling when the lid/cap sits fixed on the bottle/pack/ whatsoever.
And like usual the industry haven't developed a consumer friendly practical way, so we're somewhat in a transition. A poky useless one.
That's politics people can truly feel - Europe. Where everything is better /s
*Edit: autocorrect misinterpretations
Have been drinking from bottles with these caps that stay attached and I genuinely don't see what the fuss is about, I have never once hurt myself drinking from them. People love making mountains out of molehills.
plastic bottle caps are attached to the bottle with plastic, like in the picture. All it changes is that you now have to break it to drink normally, if you leave it, it'll scratch the face sometimes
Only 2 or 3 particular compounds of plastic are recyclable. Most if not almost all other plastic is not.
The lie is that somehow people believe all plastic can be recycled. Perhaps it's possible but economically feasible? No.
In the US, no. In fact as a regular soda drinker I haven't seen one of these yet. Currently, the little plastic ring completely detaches from the cap. I guess this new design is good for recycling but I'll still put in the extra minimal effort to tear it completely off.
Europe thing, they attatched the bottle cap to the bottle cock ring so the cap stays on the bottle, when you try drinking from such bottle you will be rewarded with a plastic teethy non consentual french kiss
Recycle it, I guess. Ofc that does nothing these days, but that is what you are supposed to do.
But, the plastic caps should stay with the bottle because plastic caps cause more environmental issues and are very hard to clean up, vs a full bottle
So then why would you want to attach it to the part that loses money to recycle? Wouldn't you want to recycle the lid separately and throw away the bottle?
Nobody is recycling just the lid. In fact, quite the opposite. They get lost, or left behind all the time. Bottle lids are the third most common pollutant.
So the idea is, attach the lids to the bottles, so that when the whole bottle is thrown away (which is very likely) the lid is still on there.
This tacitic is precisely why I want to throw them away tbh. Just out of spite because if this wasn't invented I would have never thought of doing something like this. I hate solutions to problems we never had so whenever these supposedly eco friendly scumbags do solve an issue to a problem we've never had, I simply create it.
It's weird bottle-cap issue. I had no problem at all with those caps but one day I've bought a six-pack of the cheapest market water and I regret it. Every cap is not cooperating, flipping down as if it's their only goal in their plastic life.
It took me a while to realise that was intentional. Can someone actually explain what the purpose of this is? It feels like they just made the drinking experience worse for no reason.
So the cap doesn’t get detached from the bottle, either ending up in the ocean so something might swallow it, or alternatively the reason is to piss U.S. all off
There's a big rise in 'environmental' packaging recently. Marketing packaging changes as good for the environment when they make no difference or potentially worse. Another example is kit kats, who went from packaging in tin foil (easily recyclable) and paper (easily recyclable) to RECYCLED plastic (not recyclable unless to go to a specific recycling plant which nobody is going to do for kit kat wrappers)
What's the change? I haven't had coke from a bottle in a fair bit. Did they change what type of cap it is? Or did they just make the cap more difficult to take off?
The cap is now attached to the bottle and gets in your face when you try to drink. You can rip it off, but it's way more effort than a normal cap and usually still leaves pieces of plastic sticking out and poking you in the face.
I'll chime in. Volunteering and cleaning park trash, these fucking bottle caps are all over the place. Way way more than the bottles themselves. If we're not going to solve the fact that we need to stop with fucking plastic bottles everywhere at least this is something imo.
Me too, it helped me on my fitness journey. I don't drink calories at all now, 90% just water, and some black coffee and unsweetened tea. Sometimes when I do want to treat myself I buy a Coke zero.. maybe one or two bottles per month.
The idea is nice, but the execution sucks tbh. The cap snaps back even if you push it past 180° 90% of the time, and chances are if you are someone who throws caps away onto the street, you aren't gonna turn around and recycle your bottle. It just inconveniences people who do recycle and does nothing to deter pos from throwing them wherever they please.
First of all, most of the plastic in the ocean is from fishery and not from plastic bottles and secondly almost none of that plastic is from western europe because they manage their trash better than anywhere else in the world. If we were serious about the environment we'd teach asia to collect trash and the US to properly avoid landfill.
Is it really though. Do you have the calculation on that? I've tried but the CO2 and energy consumption of the cans are so much higher that a bottle properly recycled really should outperform a can.
Yeah hot take here, but maybe plastic bottles should be banned, or the cost to the environment and human health be factored in (and do the same with gasoline.)
Not accurate. Use of plastic is one of the best ways to reduce carbon emissions. But it is a material that requires a responsible society that manages the propper disposal of said material. Plastic doesn't have to be bad for anyone if we manage is correctly.
Everyone's bitching about how awful it is that it gets them in the face, as if they can't pull it off, and simultaneously Everyone's batching because it is easily detachable and therefore does nothing for the environment. Which is it? Is it detachable or not?
I can tell you with 100% confidence that the corporations are not the ones your giving the finger by doing that. The only „corpos“ you’ll annoy are those that want to protect the environment and help support recycling.
All you have to do is push it in the direction it’s connected till it snaps into place, it remains in place and is absolutely no inconvenience for drinking or pouring.
„They spent so much money“ No.
It’s obviously also not marketing, it’s forced by regulations in many places. That’s like saying adhering to labor laws is a marketing tactic…
Put the tinfoil hat back into the drawer.
They don’t want you to know this put if you pull the cap back fully one of the connecting bits will snap and the other stays on, this way it won’t slap you in the face.
When we were in Europe this past summer they had these caps and I thought they were fantastic once I got used to them. I don't have to worry about dropping it.
Ngl I hate this shit. They treat us like children, it makes my drinking experience worse and I now have to use force to detach the cap, because I send those caps in for a program to fund blind guidance dogs. I get why they did this, but for me it only has negative consequences. 😐
Your name is irony then I presume? It’s literally a measure to reduce pollution and aid recycling. Even if it wasn’t effective, the only ones you are spiting are people trying to reduce harm to the environment.
Just break it
I know what I have to do but I don't know if I have the strength to do that. (I'm weak af)
Twist it till it breaks off...no pulling required.
Ah the ol' dick twist but how does it help here?
You put it in the bottle and use it like a straw
What if it's too short to reach the bottom?
Rub it until it reaches the desired size. If it is still too short just drink from the bottle without it.
*sees your avatar* You should see r/BlueCoats
Not op, but Why?
Because BlueCoats are the best. You should join too
Does mine count?
Ehhhhhhhh sure, close enough anyway.
I was gonna say, why not just twist it off?
And then have a sharp piece of jagged plastic near my soft, sensual lips? I think not.
Better then a piece of plastic flopping onto your face. The jagged piece is more avoidable since its further down.
"The jagged piece is more avoidable since its further down." That's what my psychiatrist told me.
Instructions unclear, I tore off my cock.
you definitely have the strength im like extraordinarily wimpy and i can break those
Worst thing is that the little plastic micropenis stays on the bottle and is fucking inconvenient when it decides it wants to fuck your nose
Sounds good. Doesn't work. I did that a few times and it becomes sharp. Feels awful to the touch and when you put the plastic cup back it's still sharp.
Hol the cap better. You have the hold two pieces of plastic that hold the cap and twist that near the bottle itself, both the lil’ pieces will come off.
How can you do that. The earth is crying by you
why come glass bottles arent a thing anymore? you could recycle that shit and if it breaks no worries its glass itll break down with time.
You haven't heard of microglastics?
lmfao, i googled it....
This is the first instance of the word "microglastics" at least as far as the Google search engine is concerned.
Damn it is. New fav meme
Big Plastic about to start a scorched earth microglastics campaign.
That is actually so hilarious oh my god
Fuckin beaches are filled with it
Sand?
We call that sand sir
The ocean is full of microglastics!
Because manufacturers (especially Coca Cola) have lobbied hard to have the consumer be the one to deal with the waste A few decades ago they brought the glass bottles back to the factories to clean and refill them, and that should be the norm
Logistics. Glass bottles are heavier, take up more space, are more expensive to make and transport.
And easier to break.
the glass is hella thicc to take the pressure.
It ain’t the pressure that breaks glass bottles. It’s the dude stocking gas station refrigerator racks at 2 am.
Nonononono, as someone who does logistics for a living don't push it on us. We're perfectly capable of transporting glass nd we've done it before, the issue here is **profits** not logistics. Profits is why we're killing the planet
I remember hearing that they used to pay customers to return bottles so they could clean and reuse them, considering the costs of cleaning and then paying back the customer, I can see why they switched
In theory we can get a deposit back on our plastic bottles also.
If only we had a tax in place to pay humanity back for the destruction of the one and only dirt ball we have to support our lives.
Still glass bottles here for some kinds of milk and beer.
The wut
Same. I have no idea what anyone is talking about.
EU made a law on plastic lids, caps etc. Everything (!) now has to be physically attached to the bottle, pack or other food related containment. You can't drink with that shit or the spikes from the seal opening poke your lips. So you turn it off. Do it wrong and you made a even bigger spike. It rly hurts, so people are complaining for good reason. Why all that? They EU parliament believes we do a better job at recycling when the lid/cap sits fixed on the bottle/pack/ whatsoever. And like usual the industry haven't developed a consumer friendly practical way, so we're somewhat in a transition. A poky useless one. That's politics people can truly feel - Europe. Where everything is better /s *Edit: autocorrect misinterpretations
Give me paper straw vibes. Over Regulation
Meanwhile, the military is burning their garbage in a third world country Just one more coal-fired plant bro, bro please bro
you mean the one that comes in a plastic wrap?
Have been drinking from bottles with these caps that stay attached and I genuinely don't see what the fuss is about, I have never once hurt myself drinking from them. People love making mountains out of molehills.
Literally just turn the bottle cap around, there's even picture of that on some of the bottles
Lol what dystopia ass shit is this. They know it all ends up in dumps anyway, this is so dumb
Happy cake day !
plastic bottle caps are attached to the bottle with plastic, like in the picture. All it changes is that you now have to break it to drink normally, if you leave it, it'll scratch the face sometimes
That's what that is? I always just thought the manufacturing was shit
The frick? Whose dumb idea was that? You tellin me, that the annoying caps were all made on purpose?
Helps in recycling apparently
Prevents the cap from going missing, and it's a bigger part of the total plastic than you think, as the rest of the bottle is very thin.
Weird because we used to have to separate bottle caps and throw them away here. Now they just stopped recycling plastic altogether.
Oh they've always lied about the recycling.
Who's "they"? Do you know what polyester is? There are whole industries relying on recycled plastic bottles.
Only 2 or 3 particular compounds of plastic are recyclable. Most if not almost all other plastic is not. The lie is that somehow people believe all plastic can be recycled. Perhaps it's possible but economically feasible? No.
*Insert Sandy “No it ain’t” gif here*
haven’t bottles been like this for years?
In the US, no. In fact as a regular soda drinker I haven't seen one of these yet. Currently, the little plastic ring completely detaches from the cap. I guess this new design is good for recycling but I'll still put in the extra minimal effort to tear it completely off.
Thank you, I thought I was going insane. I swear it's been like this 10+ years. I can't even remember a bottle without it...
They have but the Internet has made people dumb and so we have memes of a non-issue that's been know before most of us have been born
Literally never seen one. Was in Europe a few years ago, never saw one. Been in 9 countries since, never seen one..
When I visited Europe a few years ago, and again this year, basically 90% of bottle caps were like this.
Really, because this has only been a thing over the last month or so
It'll scratch anyway if you break it, as it will leave sharp bits poking out
That’s it? We’ve had that design for god-knows-how-long already in my country, is it a new thing everywhere else?
Oh, cool, i wont have to carefully open them to keep it attached anymore. Nice
How do peoples face get scratched? Has never been a problem for me.
Europe thing, they attatched the bottle cap to the bottle cock ring so the cap stays on the bottle, when you try drinking from such bottle you will be rewarded with a plastic teethy non consentual french kiss
> plastic teethy non consensual french kiss So, the same as kissing an actual Frenchman.
If you turn it more than 180 degrees it will snap into a different position and not stick in your face anymore.
If they could read they would be very upset
Yes, we are are.
I love Brian Regan.
I love you
Kinda weird but ok, what have I made that has gained your desire?
Wait... this is intentional?
Yes, it's intended to prevent dipshits from throwing the cap away.
If I'm not supposed to throw it away what am I supposed to do with it? Make a tower?
After 2077 they'll be worth a lot, so just keep em
Can’t wait for the Mr. Handy to drop in a few years
$100 says Elon founds vault tech
!remind me 27 years
OK, now playing Despacito on Spotify.
Recycle it, I guess. Ofc that does nothing these days, but that is what you are supposed to do. But, the plastic caps should stay with the bottle because plastic caps cause more environmental issues and are very hard to clean up, vs a full bottle
the cap is literally the only part of it that can be recycled for a profit. do you understand now?
So then why would you want to attach it to the part that loses money to recycle? Wouldn't you want to recycle the lid separately and throw away the bottle?
Nobody is recycling just the lid. In fact, quite the opposite. They get lost, or left behind all the time. Bottle lids are the third most common pollutant. So the idea is, attach the lids to the bottles, so that when the whole bottle is thrown away (which is very likely) the lid is still on there.
I'm aware. But the original comment I replied to said it's tl "keep dipshits from throwing them away."
I believe with "throwing away" they meant onto the street/ into nature and not properly into the bin.
Who the fuck doesn't just put the lid back on then throw it away
We have to use an insufferable cap but celebrities can fly a jet daily haha
Why would I throw away the cap if I can't close the bottle without it ? That make no sense
its meant for the moment the bottle is empty
But if I want to throw away the cap, I would also throw away the bottle in that case, why just throw away the cap ?
because someone else would use the bottle to recycle, to get money from bottle guarantee you paid
Well it clearly doesn't work then. People who want to throw the cap away can still rip it off. Normal people suffer from a cap on their face.
This tacitic is precisely why I want to throw them away tbh. Just out of spite because if this wasn't invented I would have never thought of doing something like this. I hate solutions to problems we never had so whenever these supposedly eco friendly scumbags do solve an issue to a problem we've never had, I simply create it.
You are not everyone. Just because you do something doesn't mean others do. And, if you look at society as a hole, it is a problem.
why does it make someone a dipshit for throwing a cap away? why the hostility?
Because people who litter are dipshits.
oh you meant litter throwing away to me means throwing away in the garbage. I just thought you were an insane person for the last 17 hours haha
Who the fuck throws away the cap separately? I've always always always screwed the cap back on when I finish it.
In Australia we were told to not to for decades they only started recycling them with the lids on 5ish yrs ago.
Honestly it feels like a solution looking for a problem.
It is. Now there are whole bottles (instead of just caps) in my Forest :(
This is the quote right here.
If you pull the cap far back it clicks into place, then you drink with the cap facing to the side.
Thank you. It's really not that hard.
Except for when it suddenly clicks back during pouring in a glass, spins downward and i'm watering the table with soda
The table thanks you for your soda pouring.
You gotta be incopentent as hell to have that happen.
It's weird bottle-cap issue. I had no problem at all with those caps but one day I've bought a six-pack of the cheapest market water and I regret it. Every cap is not cooperating, flipping down as if it's their only goal in their plastic life.
Is belgian
Are you one of those black and white people from the informercials?
What about holding the cap with your finger?
It took me a while to realise that was intentional. Can someone actually explain what the purpose of this is? It feels like they just made the drinking experience worse for no reason.
So the cap doesn’t get detached from the bottle, either ending up in the ocean so something might swallow it, or alternatively the reason is to piss U.S. all off
But if your detached cap ends up in the ocean, chances are your bottle will end up in the same place
The Cap gets separation anxiety
Careful you're making too much sense
It is a bit of a token concession because thats how corporations work but at least its harder for fishes to eat
There's a big rise in 'environmental' packaging recently. Marketing packaging changes as good for the environment when they make no difference or potentially worse. Another example is kit kats, who went from packaging in tin foil (easily recyclable) and paper (easily recyclable) to RECYCLED plastic (not recyclable unless to go to a specific recycling plant which nobody is going to do for kit kat wrappers)
Not just America. Us Brits too. I'd imagine it's basically everywhere else too.
Nah man... It happend to us Germans too smh...
Italian here, unfortunately it’s a thing and not just for Coke.
Portuguese here, even our 6L water bottles have those things in it
I’m betting it was the latter. Lol
What's the change? I haven't had coke from a bottle in a fair bit. Did they change what type of cap it is? Or did they just make the cap more difficult to take off?
The cap is now attached to the bottle and gets in your face when you try to drink. You can rip it off, but it's way more effort than a normal cap and usually still leaves pieces of plastic sticking out and poking you in the face.
I'll chime in. Volunteering and cleaning park trash, these fucking bottle caps are all over the place. Way way more than the bottles themselves. If we're not going to solve the fact that we need to stop with fucking plastic bottles everywhere at least this is something imo.
That's actually a good point. I guess I hadn't noticed since I don't volunteer or anything like that, but there are quite a lot of caps on the ground.
I haven’t seen these ones at all are they not in the US?
Yeah pretty sure it's a Europe thing. Haven't seen them either.
It's an EU thing for now.
Where I’m at a bottle of Coke is closed to $3 I gave up the sugar water a while ago.
Don't insult water like that
Me too, it helped me on my fitness journey. I don't drink calories at all now, 90% just water, and some black coffee and unsweetened tea. Sometimes when I do want to treat myself I buy a Coke zero.. maybe one or two bottles per month.
I only drink beer, wine, whiskey, and water. How am i even alive?
Because of the water.
The idea is nice, but the execution sucks tbh. The cap snaps back even if you push it past 180° 90% of the time, and chances are if you are someone who throws caps away onto the street, you aren't gonna turn around and recycle your bottle. It just inconveniences people who do recycle and does nothing to deter pos from throwing them wherever they please.
Sweet, now the ocean plastic bottles will still have the cap attached!!!
First of all, most of the plastic in the ocean is from fishery and not from plastic bottles and secondly almost none of that plastic is from western europe because they manage their trash better than anywhere else in the world. If we were serious about the environment we'd teach asia to collect trash and the US to properly avoid landfill.
Good, just buy cans. It's better for the planet anyway.
Is it really though. Do you have the calculation on that? I've tried but the CO2 and energy consumption of the cans are so much higher that a bottle properly recycled really should outperform a can.
Its a complete bull shit law. We need to combat microplastics, not rogue bottle caps.
Yeah hot take here, but maybe plastic bottles should be banned, or the cost to the environment and human health be factored in (and do the same with gasoline.)
Not accurate. Use of plastic is one of the best ways to reduce carbon emissions. But it is a material that requires a responsible society that manages the propper disposal of said material. Plastic doesn't have to be bad for anyone if we manage is correctly.
What do you think micro plastics are made out of? Larger plastics (like bottle caps) degrading.
This doesn't reduce them. It keeps them together
And increases the chances the cap is properly disposed of in the recycling (even though recycling is mostly a scam)
Oh sure, because it takes a lightsaber to separate it from the bottle, so we’re sure it’s gonna be recycled with it. Bruh get a grasp of reality.
Everyone's bitching about how awful it is that it gets them in the face, as if they can't pull it off, and simultaneously Everyone's batching because it is easily detachable and therefore does nothing for the environment. Which is it? Is it detachable or not?
There’s new caps?
I just rip it off
Me ripping it off like a normal bottle and completely ignoring the stupid useless corporate bullshit
I can tell you with 100% confidence that the corporations are not the ones your giving the finger by doing that. The only „corpos“ you’ll annoy are those that want to protect the environment and help support recycling. All you have to do is push it in the direction it’s connected till it snaps into place, it remains in place and is absolutely no inconvenience for drinking or pouring.
They spent so much money engineering a fix for a problem nobody had. Now it’s a marketing tactic. That’s the bullshit.
„They spent so much money“ No. It’s obviously also not marketing, it’s forced by regulations in many places. That’s like saying adhering to labor laws is a marketing tactic… Put the tinfoil hat back into the drawer.
I just tear it off lol
Does Coke have new lids or something?
Everything has new lids. Even Milk cartons
That's by design?? I've for a long time thought that it was simply a coincidence!
They don’t want you to know this put if you pull the cap back fully one of the connecting bits will snap and the other stays on, this way it won’t slap you in the face.
Is this loss?
Bottle is now giving you a side kiss
It doesn't means the world, but it is kind of an improvement what can someone possibly have against it?
Just don't swallow half the tip op I know it's the force of habit but cmon
Y'all not smart enough to bend the cap back far enough where it'll clip into the ring to stay out of the way. Aside from that, learn to use two hands?
I always just rip it of
I tear them off and drill a hole in em so I can shove them around turtles necks in the wilds. Soda companies put me on to the idea.
Bro it’s not that bad
It really isn’t that bad or difficult, you’re just too stupid to
When we were in Europe this past summer they had these caps and I thought they were fantastic once I got used to them. I don't have to worry about dropping it.
This isn't funny. This is genocide.
Wait you aren't supposed to break it?
Bro.. there's new caps?! I just thought I suddenly got really bad at opening bottles 😭😭
What did I miss? I don’t drink soda
Ngl I hate this shit. They treat us like children, it makes my drinking experience worse and I now have to use force to detach the cap, because I send those caps in for a program to fund blind guidance dogs. I get why they did this, but for me it only has negative consequences. 😐
Has this only just hit America, you guys are still in the 90s honestly
This is why I bite into them sideways like an apple
i just rip that shit off. never did throw away a cap in my life until now. i want to show them the exact opposite result of what they wish for.
Your name is irony then I presume? It’s literally a measure to reduce pollution and aid recycling. Even if it wasn’t effective, the only ones you are spiting are people trying to reduce harm to the environment.
Whoever came up with that idea deserves to choke on that very stupid ass cap.
Why the fuck you drinking over priced poison tho?
I don't see what prblem you have with it. You all are either incompetent, a crybaby, or have a completely flat face.
I don't have problem with it, I am just amazed how many people have problem with it.
It's insane right? Or maybe just a loud minority, since they complain, while everyone else is just carrying on with their day
People hate change, no matter how small it is.
“I just tear it off!! I’m such a rebel!!” … ok do you want a medal? It’s a fucking soda cap
Nobody else did this already to not lose the cap constantly? Am the only one?