You might wanna ask the marine wildlife like sea birds, turtles and fish which die miserably en masse from swallowing these thrown away plastic caps. I‘m pretty sure they‘ll find the attached caps quite useful.
That sure is a big problem. But so are the plastic caps, look it up. And loose caps are much more easy to fix, there is literally no disadvantage to that.
Good point, it's important as a society that we don't spend time fixing any issue unless it's the biggest issue possible (and then do nothing still) \s
It's important we don't waste resources pretending we're doing something when the real problem goes ignored. Eg. someone posts a video of a turtle with a straw in its nose and suddenly the entire world switches to paper straws, but keeps the plastic lids and plastic coated cardboard they slot into.
the caps are trash, this reduces them being scattered in the environment. It's not a pretend issue, and we didn't "waste resources" doing it. It's made a real, measurable change and took a minimum of effort - it's the exact same manufacturing process, they just needed new injection molds. Personally, i find it more convenient anyway - i don't have to hold on to the cap while drinking. But i guess you find it slightly weird or something, so go ahead and crash out about a good thing as if it's the most important thing in your life ... glad to know your life is going so well that caps attached to a bottle (that you can still remove with a slight tug if you really care) is worth your stress and anger.
All the European turtles?
Are we going back millions of years?
Seriously. This cap idea is one of the weirdest and most useless garbage protection deals and so many more actually useful things could have been implemented instead of this joke.
Yes, the ones in the south from France and Portugal through the Mediterranean into the Aegean and up into the Balkans. There are several species native to Europe but pretty much all of them are endangered at this point.
EU makes a very small part of the overall Ocean pollution. Countries in a nearby region push tons of plastic garbage per hour into their rivers, but what has the "civilized humanity" done to stop it? These shitty strapped caps... only in the small EU! Success?? Bullshit!
Such a great point! We shouldn't try to fix anything unless other countries try to fix it first, why should we have clean water and reduce trash and improve our environment if those other people in other countries aren't doing it?
I say the money and effort should be spent on a real reason. I don't like such hypocrisy when people are proud of achieving 1-2% of something while the huge piece (80%) is "untouchable".
Ah just because others are polluting the oceans more, means we shouldn‘t take measures to minimize our impact on marine wildlife. Great logic. And by the way, even monkeys have been proven to be able to handle the new attached caps. I‘m sure you can do it, too!
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u/ImpressiveLength6252 5h ago
You might wanna ask the marine wildlife like sea birds, turtles and fish which die miserably en masse from swallowing these thrown away plastic caps. I‘m pretty sure they‘ll find the attached caps quite useful.