If you can't outright solve a problem you shouldn't try to improve the situation >:(
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How is this improving the situation. Do people only throw away the caps? I think this is just some stupid law so that they can say they tried. I still think soda cans are just a better solution and make it mandatory that companies recycle their own waste.
I still think soda cans are just a better solution
That actually sounds like a good idea to me, or you could make them similar in design to those water-bottles that have the cap meant to stay with the bottle, shown in:
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Whereas the existing design is similar to the old pull tabs that were on cans which caused ecological damage when people discarded them on the ground.
I wish they'd instead go after the big companies doing the majority of the damage, but I suppose this's where the cards lay. (For now)
I think its easily solvable you just make it mandatory that companies recycle their own bottles and they WILL find a way to make it cheao.
Did you reply to the wrong comment?
The parks in my area have far more bottle caps on the ground than bottles
Do people only throw away the caps?
Well yes, many throw caps and bottle separately and the people that throw their trash anywhere will certainly not care about the caps.
make it mandatory that companies recycle their own waste.
Lol.
In what country is it mandatory for companies to recycle soda cans ?
Denmark lol
unfortunately yes, i've seen lots of just caps thrown around as litter
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What? Don't be ridiculous. Of course you should still try to improve the situation. That's like saying trucks that get 7MPG are bad for the environment but don't bother making trucks that get 20MPG because it still runs on fossil fuels.
It was sarcasm
I mean that's less stupid than "Paper Straws"
Pasta straws for the win. They are much better than paper straws in that they're still biodegradable and they don't go limp after a few sips. Have been wondering if they pose a risk to people suffering from gluten allergies/intollerances.
Ah so that’s why all caps suddenly suck :/. stubbornly pulls cap off of the bottle
Oh, that's why every beverage now has these shitty caps. Worth it if it helps fight pollution tho
well, it is just annoying
Am I the only one who loves the new cap design?
It's fucking annoying and it's completely backwards. The cap is constantly in the way when I try to pour the contents into a glass, so shit spills everywhere. I just snip the plastic umbilical cord with some scissors or rip the cap off.
Another nonsensical bill. Add it to the pile.
my biggest pain in 2023...
Every cap should just be like those water bottle caps that pop up and down, and then use less plastic by making them unremovable.
Making them unremovable would use more plastic. A lot of people reuse those sports cap bottles.
My girlfriend can't screw them back on properly so right now she only uses each drinks bottle once
I hate the things so much because they hurt to use, can't really be used one-handed and also make it difficult to drink from the bottle because of the weird angles they implicate.
So I've been cutting the caps off and cutting the little limbs off and making what was previously one piece of plastic into three, which I obviously also hate doing.
In the past I would always screw the lid back on before binning it, either to trap the air out or for the sake of completeness, so in my particular case this policy is very much the worst of all worlds, I hope the data shows that I'm an edge case though if they're passing it into law.
Yeah, it's one of the dumbest ideas ever. We don't recycle shit, we don't reduce one use plastics or other oil based crap - but this is going to solve .. absolutely nothing. It's eco-washing and wanking while we got to 1.5 C already
I am confused. Why? Bottle caps and bottles themselves usually are different types of plastic, so it would make sense to separate them. Or am I missing something?