Rip that shit right off! Isn’t it necessary to separately dispose the cap and bottle anyway because they are different plastics?
No, you dont. Its both plastic so both go in plastics :')
Which is why a new law was passed to make the top not easily removable so both are disposed together and (depending on the design) reused
Just a reminder that recycling is a lie, and that pretty much anywhere in the world 90% of plastic just ends up in the landfill regardless of whether or not you properly sorted into recycling. The cost of sorting, processing, and then reusing the plastic is more expensive than simply using new plastic so it’s not profitable. And the vast majority of cardboard is on usable due to the different types of dyes used to put logos colors Etc on it or is otherwise contaminated on its way to the recycling facility
Pretty much the only materials actually for real reused and recycled is glass and metals like aluminum and steel
Germany has a recycling rate for PET bottles of 94.8%, 45% for general plastic packaging. It’s profitable because if you sell stuff in plastic packaging you’re forced to pay for the recycling. As a consumer you don’t pay for having those yellow bags and bins collected, which means that if you separate all the packaging and put it in there you get to pay less for your other bin. As a producer, if you’re switching your packaging to something that’s easier to recycle, you pay less into the scheme and either lower prices to sell more product or pocket the difference. Our Greens love to solve shit by strategically shifting around market incentives: When the producer has to pay the bill the market failure suddenly vanishes.
Glass OTOH is a problem because even small contaminations can mess up a whole batch, and the process is energy-intensive in the first place. Crushed glass makes very good aggregate for concrete, though.
As to cardboard: Sort what you can, the rest goes into industrial composting. Left-over plastic gets burned, which actually isn’t that bad – the issue isn’t the burning (they’ve got proper filters and everything) but that the plastic isn’t sourced from renewable sources. Certainly more sensible even in its current state than burning oil while putting the plastic in a landfill.
I like this new feature very much - the lid no longer has to be held in the other hand or such but simply stays where it is needed.
People who are not able to perform most simple tasks like turning the lid a little sideways should be exempted from elections.
Yeah, turning it a bit to the side is no big deal.
However, I recently found out that this makes drinking things a little more viscous absolutely impossible without messing up your shit.
I drank a Kefir, which you normally shake before drinking. So there is a lot of it clinging to the inside of the cap for dear life - up until to that very moment you take a sip. Then, it decides that it had enough and spills on your clothes, face, shoes - whatever the fuck it can possibly get to.
So either you need a glass, let it sit until the cap is mostly empty or lick that cap and look like a complete degenerate.
I will be going to the store later to buy kefir and relive your experience so I can better judge its validity
If you are able to open the cap to begin with, you’re capable of twisting it and tearing it off. It’s not that hard. I never understood the “controversy” when these were introduced, and I’m convinced that the ones too inept to take it off completely are the same ones who caused the caps to end up in the wrong place to begin with.
Uuuuuh never taken the cap off, but I also stopped losing the cap after putting it down 5 seconds ago to pour myself a glass of soda 🤷
Bottled water: Imagine drinking 240000 microplastic particles per bottle.
Another moron-filter. People complain about simple gestures that could potentially help humanity in a small way. We’ve always had morons. We seem to reach a critical mass, though. The real issue if overpopulation: more morons in general.
It’s fine that those people exist, but they shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce or teach.
Those caps are fine. Drinking from plastic bottles is stupid enough. Having them at all was a huge step back.
What a world.
