r/SipsTea • u/DelicateAurora • 8h ago

Lmao gottem Valid point

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u/irn-bru-anonymous 6h ago

How exactly does it “reduce” waste. The bottle is still plastic. The cap is still there. Now there’s a bit more plastic being used per bottle. Yay.

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u/NAL_Gaming 3h ago

That amount of extra plastic is negligible if it saves even one bottlecap from being tossed into nature.

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u/CurvySexretLady 3h ago

What of people just tossing the whole bottle with the cap attached into nature? How does that help reduce waste?

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u/NAL_Gaming 1h ago

Well they were going to throw the bottle regardless.

We were already planning on implementing a law that would mandate the cap when returning bottles in Finland before this new bottlecap design came into effect. There were many bottles returned where the cap has been thrown away.

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u/CurvySexretLady 53m ago

Fair enough, that's a reasonable explanation for keeping caps attached.

But if the design requires additional plastic on every bottle, has anyone actually quantified whether the reduction in discarded caps outweighs the additional plastic being produced?

I'm curious whether there's a demonstrated net environmental benefit here, rather than simply an assumption that attached caps must mean less waste.

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u/NAL_Gaming 40m ago

I'm not aware of any studies, but it would be interesting indeed!