You can do it right, and you can do it wrong. Some countries and companies do it very good and it's actually useful, some other apparently hate their customers.
The push was introduced in 2019 and made mandatory in 2024. I moved to Belgium (my third time in Europe) in 2020 the bottles - plastics and glass - did not have the attached caps. It was around late 2021 to early 2022 when they started to appear.
By the time I left the country before it offically became mandatory, the attached caps were on every bottle.
the first one i tried i sorta mangled it (it wasn't just a regular twist). once I figured it out it's convenient. i flicked a cap across the room first water bottle I opened back in the us
If you find it annoying, don't use plastic bottles unless you need it. Do you have a water bottle? On the scale of society you get less plastic in the drinking water or public parks I'd you keep the bottle and cap together.
I live in the US and took a holiday to Bonaire last summer and was so very confused by this. But once I figured out what was going on, I thought it was absolutely brilliant.
you can give it a little twist so the plastic snaps a bit and hold it away with your index finger. i prefer this since i don't have to worry about holding the cap, and its not really in the way if you do what i described
It's so easy to remove still, and for people who know how to move the cap to the side, it just keeps it on the bottle, and not in the environment.
It might not make all that much of a difference, but it adds up to a considerate mindset in those with minds.
Maybe I'm missing something about what's pictured, but isn't this just the ring that comes with every milk jug or plastic soda bottle? The one that causes me to curse under my breath as it scratches my pinky before I rip it off and toss it in the trash?
The lid stays attached to that ring. So in Europe, the lid hinges because it only separates from that seal about 90%. Then you unscrew it, and flip it back on the hinge, which is the last 10% of the plastic still attached.
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u/EchoChamberTech 6h ago
I just went back to Europe for the first time in 4 years.
4 years ago, I do not remember water bottles having that. But on this trip, they all did. And I hated it.