Sono l’unico infastidito da questa cosa?

Apparently its better for recycling or whatever, but yeah, can be annoying

It’s a EU thing to reduce waste.

I guess the plan is to make it easier to recycle the whole bottles if the cap is still there. Otherwise the cap would be get lost and then not recycled.

No clue if it works, but it surely make using the bottles more annoying.

I am more annyoed by people still buying plastic bottled water from a mega company which fucks up the planet for profit while drinking tap water is free .. and having a reusable bottle for it wouldn´t have cap issue either.

Rip one of the holding strings off, it makes drinking more easy and the cap doesn’t fall to the ground.

Incredibly annoying. Much harder to drink out of and also harder to get the bottle cap back on correctly. There are more important things in the world, but this change in terms of direct effect on me is pretty high up there.

I’m pretty sure I have never failed to put a bottle cap back on in the past too.

No, I hate it, too. It just makes it nearly impossible to pour something without spilling, and I’ve cut both my hand and the side of my mouth on the pointy bits.

As others have said, it’s a new EU rule to cut down on waste. I’m old enough to remember the time drink cans had [ring-pulls that completely separated from the cans](https://live.staticflickr.com/2550/4140032045_b925f32831_b.jpg) until, for a similar reason, they were replaced by the style we have now.

I don’t think it solves the problem exactly — the problem being just way too much reliance on plastic packaging — but I suppose it helps a bit. Or would, if the idea wasn’t so badly executed.

It can work, though, if done right. There’s one no-name brand that gets it right — I want to say it’s Flirt, which is Aldi’s soft drinks brand, unless it’s Freeway from Lidl (it’s one of those). The lid unscrews easily, it folds away a full 180° and snaps so it stays that way while you drink, folds back and screws back on just as easily. I actually think it’s an improvement: I was constantly dropping the damn things (not great if you’re planning to screw them back on and you have two cats in the house), now they just stay right where I need them.

Unfortunately, most others are, as you say, a real pain, and like (I suspect) so many others, I end up tearing them off, thus defeating the whole purpose. It can be done properly, clearly, but I’ve only found this one discount brand that’s figured it out.

It’s a EU law. The Netherlands has the same and it’s the most annoying thing on the planet. There are so many ways to fix this, and this wasn’t one of them for sure.

I rip them off. I have never in my life lost a cap and always recycle them along with the bottles. Who are the dumbasses that were just losing the caps?

And than they say „We do something for the clima!“

>I don’t know why all bottles covers are now attached to the bottle.

Because other European nations don’t have a deposit return scheme so there’s no incentive to keep the cap around to stabilize the bottle. Aka they end up everywhere tossed aside.

It’s a near useless regulation for Germany

Seems like I’m the minority here but I don’t really care about that.