See that‘s the point I never got: Who tf does not keep them together? Like the cap‘s on the bottle, you remove it to drink/pour the liquid into a different container and put the cap back on. Why would I ever separate the bottle from the cap?
Its more that stupid people think attaching a bottle cap to a bottle is a positive move in the right direction and will now allow themselves to continue their unchecked consumption guilt-free. Plastic recycling owes its very roots to this sort of empty gesture so it's hardly surprising.
Why would I ever separate the bottle from the cap?
I swear that use to be the requirement to recycle them; remove the cap and cut off the tamper evident seal ring because they were made of dissimilar plastics and the caps weren't accepted.
Now I'm pretty sure everything goes through a massive shredder and is sorted with magnetism, eddy currants, and an optical system with air jets to seperate chunks.
They are not annoying. The trick is to turn the cap to the side. When I first used them, I had the cap opposite my mouth and it would hit my nose. To the side and there’s no issue.
Whether or not they suck depends a lot on the implementation. Drinking is generally fine, in my opinion.
However, the kind of cap many milk and juice cartons now use is absolutely miserable. It just clips down and can be opened by twisting it a little. They are extremely prone to leaking or just randomly opening entirely from the smallest amount of pressure. You literally can't lie them down anymore after they have been opened once or they might just spill their entire contents into the fridge.
If you twist the caps most of them just stay fixed in place. There are new ones with the floating cap on little wire, you can just hold the cap. I don't get the drama.
If you think they are troublesome to drink from i think you have other problems you need to address. It doesn't require that much mentality to figure out to just put the cap sideways..
I am physically larger than the average person. Close to 7 foot and ring sizes involve number type of large.
No matter what I do, it is in the way, but thank you for the clarification on my mental state from a single, unrelated comment! A savant with that level of ability is sure to go far.
I did in the past, but I heard that a lot of the caps are separated from the bottles after being thrown away. So was worried I would be inadvertently contributing to continuing the issue.
Its an annoyance, but if it keeps the planet tidy we deal with it!
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u/Venoxulous 7h ago
No, it was an issue where people wouldnt recycle the pieces together.
Edit: It is incredibly fucking annoying to drink from now too