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Bottle caps stay tethered to the bottles when bottles are taken in for recycling. They don’t end up on the ground.
Which is weird, since I have never seen anyone dispose of a screw-on lid improperly. It‘s always just the caps to glass bottles you see lying around.
The EU took an inventory of what kind of plastic ends up on beaches, bottle caps weren't the #1 offender but bottles were much rarer so it stands to reason that when you attach the caps to the bottles you get rid of a lot of plastics on beaches.
Wait, the rings of plastic bottle caps were also among the top ten? Who takes the time to pry off the ring and why would they do this to begin with? This feels like there‘s still a piece missing.
Here's the actual report, the answer is that they didn't distinguish between caps and rings in the statistics. Most of the top 10 place of that category should come from caps, not rings.
As to who pries them off: Bored people.
That's the thing. I never saw plastic bottle caps on the ground because people want to close the bottle after use. It's only good for green washing.
It has to be noted it's not yhe companies that camenup with this, afaik it's EU regulation
It was one very common plastic garbage found on the beach. I think that's exactly what lead them to make the decision to do this.
Will you please stop watching me dispose of my litter. It's creepy.
Here is what makes no sense to me - if someone throws the caps on the ground, wouldn't they be less likely to put the bottle in a recycling bin as well?
It's wielder that that. There was a period when my plastics bin actively got rejected if the caps were still on the bottle. To this day I have no clue why but they can't do that anymore
Different kinds of plastic
Isn't that still the case though?
I don’t think it’s a matter of people throwing the caps on the ground and not the bottles, but the fact that caps end up on the ground and people can’t be bothered to pick them back up again, or they roll off somewhere.