Bill Posted August 22 Report Share Posted August 22 Hot topic of conversation in the pub last night, the introduction of these new bottle caps where the cap stays attached to the opening. They were only introduced a few months ago but now it seems more and more are going this way. Personally, I find them bloomin annoying especially when during the night you need a quick drink and end up with a bottle top sticking up your nose. For anyone like me with arthritic fingers, they’re a lot more difficult to close compared to a conventional screw cap and don’t get it right and they end up leaking all over the place. On Facebook, the majority of people were saying they’re a brilliant idea but there was no explanation of why or any explanation for the change. In the pub it was 100% don’t like them and again nobody understood why they needed to change. Any thoughts? Bill 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confused52 Posted August 22 Report Share Posted August 22 1 hour ago, Bill said: Hot topic of conversation in the pub last night, the introduction of these new bottle caps where the cap stays attached to the opening. They were only introduced a few months ago but now it seems more and more are going this way. Personally, I find them bloomin annoying especially when during the night you need a quick drink and end up with a bottle top sticking up your nose. For anyone like me with arthritic fingers, they’re a lot more difficult to close compared to a conventional screw cap and don’t get it right and they end up leaking all over the place. On Facebook, the majority of people were saying they’re a brilliant idea but there was no explanation of why or any explanation for the change. In the pub it was 100% don’t like them and again nobody understood why they needed to change. Any thoughts? Bill 😊 The reason is the coming into force on 3rd July 2024 in the EU of DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/904 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 5 June 2019 on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment. It has the effective of requiring the caps to be recycled at the same rate as the bottle part and what you see is how the industry responded. Since bottling plants make products for the UK in plants which can also get sold in Ireland we are stuck with this unwanted change even though we are not in the EU. It is a commercial and not a political consequence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted August 22 Author Report Share Posted August 22 I see now so thanks for that. I was thinking it might have been a health and safety thing in case a child swallowed a top. I suppose it won’t be long then before the milk bottles follow suite and I’ve only just got use to them having no colour on the cap. I still can’t understand why most on Facebook agreed it was a brilliant idea without any explanation of why it was changed. Maybe I missed it? Bill 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted August 22 Report Share Posted August 22 why don't they make them like the cooking oil tops. flip up to use and then click down to seal. saves a lot of faffing about trying to get the top lined up so you can screw it back on again. (personally i just twist the top until the tab breaks off) I feel it is because of laziness that this has been introduced, people too lazy to screw the top back on the empty bottle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer II Posted August 22 Report Share Posted August 22 Apparently someone has posted a hack on tik-tok to solve the problem, can't say I understand it, as I've always screwed tops back on bottles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted August 23 Report Share Posted August 23 me too obs. i even pot lids back on jars after i have washed them out prior to recycling. milk bottles get rinsed out as well and tops put back on. i may be a bit OCD when it comes to things like that, tins, bottles, plastic trays from ready meals all get washed before going in the bin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted August 23 Author Report Share Posted August 23 Blimey the wind at just after 6am this morning got a bit scary for a while. The winds have been high for most of the night but just for a 10-minute spot they must have reached full storm force. Quite possibly a local event but it really did rattle everything quite badly. Theres a large oak tree in the neighbours garden and I’ve never seen it shaken so violently, sending twigs and small branches flying through the air. Fortunately, no real damage but all my outside furniture ended up on the opposite end of the garden. I’m due to fly out to Turkey at 6am tomorrow for a bit of a family holiday so I’m hoping the winds have dropped by then otherwise it’ll be a bumpy ride. Back on the bottle tops, I can’t see this is going to make that much of an environmental change, especially considering how much inconvenience it causes to the older generation but like most things, we’ll all probably get used to it. I’m probably just as OCD as you Sid although being realistic, peeling the plastic window out of the envelope probably makes no difference but at least if a job’s worth doing then better to do it right. Bill 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted August 23 Report Share Posted August 23 quite a blind rattler that wind, had to close the bedroom window for the first time in two years. problem then was could not get to sleep especially after somebodies wheely bin went trundling down the road in a bid for freedom.,,,🤣 one of the few things i don't do is soak the labels off the cans and plastic bottles, takes far too long, envelopes just go straight into the plastic bag with the rest and is then emptied into the recycle bin when it gets so i can close the lid on the swing bin....🤦♂️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted August 23 Author Report Share Posted August 23 Don’t see the need to remove paper labels from metal cans because they’ll just be picked up by a magnet and end up getting melted down in a furnace. Not so sure what happens with the plastic ones. I generally pull the labels off the milk bottles providing they’re not super glued on but that’s just a habit and I’m sure most people don’t bother. There was a time I seem to remember when they even advised ripping the glue part off an envelope; I don’t go that far and I doubt anyone else does. Bill 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confused52 Posted August 23 Report Share Posted August 23 8 hours ago, Evil Sid said: me too obs. i even pot lids back on jars after i have washed them out prior to recycling. milk bottles get rinsed out as well and tops put back on. i may be a bit OCD when it comes to things like that, tins, bottles, plastic trays from ready meals all get washed before going in the bin. That is what you are supposed to do as I understand it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted August 23 Author Report Share Posted August 23 That doesn’t make sense if the glass jar lid is metal. I always bin them separately. Or am I missing a point??? Bill 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninearches Posted August 23 Report Share Posted August 23 Could the point of these new fangled bottle tops to be to discourage kids from buying a bottle of pop & discarding the empty in the street minus the bottle top. The bottle wouldn't fit down a grid but the top would & possibly be a blight on the green element of society . Meanwhile, the bottle could be thrown straight into the nearest stream anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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