r/SipsTea • u/DelicateAurora • 8h ago

Lmao gottem Valid point

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u/EchoChamberTech 7h 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.

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u/KSHMisc 3h ago

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.

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u/EchoChamberTech 3h ago

Oh that's actually interesting to me. Mandatory by who?

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u/KSHMisc 3h ago

Mandatory by the European Union. It is an initiative called the Single Use Plastics Initiative (EU 2019/904).

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u/EchoChamberTech 3h ago

Fascinating. Had no idea.

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u/KSHMisc 2h ago

Yep. Even when I had moved back to the US in 2024, I found myself leaving the cap on the attach-thingies when I opened it.

Also, there are initiatives in some states to introduce the tethered caps here.