I know they’re supposed to be good for the environment. But… Holy smokes they drive me up the wall. They really do!

I had no trouble adapting when aluminum can pull-tabs got replaced by push-tabs, because it was pretty much the same movement, and I could see the immediate advantage of not getting cut by a pull-tab.

But the tethered cap is fighting decades of muscle memory in me: I’m used to taking the cap off with one hand and keeping it there while taking a swig with the other. Now I unscrew the cap with one hand, but I still have to hold the cap so it’s out of the way. It feels like drinking in handcuffs each and every time…

So unlike the pull-tab, the tethered plastic bottle cap is one of those compulsory eco solutions that constantly make you feel ever-so-slightly more miserable all the time, and I hate that because ecology only works when it brings something of value both to people and to the environment.

    • ThunderComplexEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      This isn’t possible. Every time I tried that it leaves behind 2 nasty & sharp plastic prongs. I’ve found no way to avoid that. And they can’t even be removed, I tried with pliers and a lighter and some sharp plastic spikes will inevitably remain.

      • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        jesus christ

        this is what you think about: the little plastic points on your plastic soda bottle from where you tore the plastic cap off

      • Lorindól@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        The caps must be made of different plastic in my country.

        When I came across first attached cap, I just ripped it off clean without thinking twice. No problem whatsoever.

        I have never discarded a bottle without screwing the cork back, but I guess many people do. Why they would do so, that I cannot fathom.