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Tethered plastic caps (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/mildlyinfuriating
 

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.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It does shit for the environment, no one throws caps away separately while recycling the bottle. Most coloured plastics aren't recycled anyways. Like 80% of all microplastic is from car tires.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It was a very common plastic to be found on beaches. So they wanted to tether it to prevent garbage shit in the ocean.

[–] DillyDaily 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But isn't the tether still too thin and fragile to remain connected forever?

If you drop a tethered cap on the beach, a few weeks in the sun, getting polished by sand, and that cap is seperating from the ring, and how does that fix the problem?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think it only needs to be connected until the bottle is collected, which I'd imagine it being plastic and the tether being surprisingly sturdy it will do alright

[–] DillyDaily 1 points 8 months ago

That makes sense, we don't have a proper bottle collection service in my area, everything goes in the mixed recycling bin, bagged up, it sits in a recycling landfill for a few months then if no one takes up the processing contract it gets scoop-diggered into the general landfill. (and the processing contracts rarely get picked up, we used to ship everything to China) During this process bags are ripped open and plastic debris gets everywhere, and heavy rains will wash it into the environment.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC108181

Top categories of litter on EU beaches (table pdf page 81): #1 and 2 large and small plastic/polysterine pieces 14.90 and 13.83%, #3 strings and cords 13.75%. #4 cigarette butts 6.14%, #5 cough "Plastic caps and lids (drinks, chemicals, detergents (non-food), unidentified) / plastic rings from bottle caps/lids" 5.27%.

Bottles are a way smaller category so by tethering the caps you should get rid of all the caps without a bottle. There's then another impact assessment (please don't ask me for a link) looking at impact on the bottling industry and beverage market and it was deemed negligible, so Brussels went ahead and mandated tethered caps, comes into force in July.

This isn't a question of "is the impact of the regulation big or small" but "do the pros of regulation outweigh the cons", and they do. We're not in the US over here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This also fucks a little with people collecting caps for selling them off later. Often people with cancer or other terminal diseases. I have zero idea how it is viable, but we see those very often in Poland.