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Everytime I see a bottlecap on the bottle in the ocean, I get so happy with this super good solution.
That's where a bottle deposit system could come in.
(Recycling rate actually means collection rate, but who gives a hoot.)
Austria joined the plastic bottle money back gang recently
its so new that some people dont have any plan and throw them away like normally
edit: same rate as germany but not compatible
but not compatible
A pan-European deposit system would be a sign of true integration. And it wouldn't even need all the countries to work, if Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria could harmonize their iconography, the collected containers, and payout amount, that would already be fantastic.
Even the drinks industry should be a fan of that.
I'm from Norway. We have been recycling since the eighties, like alot. This is how you solve the problem, I totally concur. So when cola, and the likes, release tethered-bottlecaps, it's a non-solution. It's vitue signaling. They should bank-roll a recycle infrastructure in countries that don't have it. That's the real solution, but they will not do it.
A bit outdated, in the Netherlands small plastic drink bottles and aluminum cans are now also part of the deposit system.
The current implementation is terrible though, the collection machines are often a smelly sticky mess due to aluminum cans leaking their contents all over. 🤢
This does not count the caps coming back, to be fair
True but the caps are tethered now, so in any country with a deposit system they will most likely be returned.
The complaint of the person above me was that instead of throwing the cap in the sea, people now supposedly throw the entire bottle in the sea. (When I write it out like this, that sounds like complete nonsense ... Those same people previously might have thrown away the entire bottle too).
Ah, that would be quite the odd result of these tethers
"Let me just lob this cap to the se- whoops there goes the whole bottle damn"
Ah damn, my cola!
They should just have a longer thin bit of plastic connecting them. Most I use it's too close and for viscous drinks it pools in the lid and drips on your face.
Typically I break off one of the tabs to make them more flexible. I'm not a lid-loser when they are detachable anyway though. If I drop it, I pick it up.
Lid-loser, what an insult ahahaha
Ok, I get the whole waste argument for these, but they're very annoying and who was just tossing the caps on their own in the first place? Isn't the whole point of buying a bottle to have a resealable container? If you're just going to huck the cap then why not just buy a can?
I don't think I've ever thrown away a cap seperately from the bottle and it isn't because of any environmental concern. If the bottle is empty then I don't want to carry around 2 pieces of trash so the cap goes back on the bottle. If the bottle still has something in it then I don't want to spill it so the cap goes back on the bottle. There is no situation I can think of where it wouldn't be more inconvenient to throw them away seperately.
I get that there was a problem with the caps but I still don't understand how that problem occured without people actively going out of their way to cause it.
Most litter isn't there because the original owner accidentally lost it, it's thrown out on purpose. You're right with the old system not all plastic bottles were thrown out with the cap removed, but some were. And in general, cleaning up the big part is easier than cleaning up the small part. I don't know the science of how big a difference it makes, I don't know if it is worth the inconvenience but even though your logic sounds very logical,stray bottle caps was big enough a problem for the eu to want to find a solution.
Oh, I agree. I've seen the reports and the benefit the change has had. The part I just don't get is why the stray bottle caps were a thing to begin with. What causes someone to throw out a bottle seperate from the cap? That's the part that doesn't make sense to me.
You seriously underestimate how actively destructive humans are. Was about to say I'm positive people separate them anyhow, even if I don't have evidence, but this comment exists, so here: https://ani.social/comment/10245094
I mean, I'd probably seperate them too while using the bottle just because it seems annoying to use a bottle with the cap still on it. But I'd still be putting the cap back on the bottle before I toss it anyways because doing anything else would be more work. Its basically just reflex to put the cap back on the bottle as soon as I'm done drinking from it to prevent spils if there's still something in it or just so I'm not also carying a cap around if it's empty.
Interestingly, the amount av littered bottle caps on the beaches of Sweden has increased since these were introduced. Source in Swedish.
One data point does not make a statistic.
Seems like a lazy workaround so companies can say they totally solved the problem.
Oddly enough, some of my favourite beverage companies switched to different packaging just to avoid having tether their caps
idk I always managed to recycle bottles with the caps on before, these tethered caps are a pain in the arse, so I rip them off of bottles I reuse :|
I wish we didn't need them because people acted like adults...
When these first came out I took a minute to figure out how I could use these to my advantage. And currently, I find them easier than caps that come off
Im happy that we have these, the environment is way better without loose caps everywhere. But i gotta say, with some bottles im still struggling. Dont get me wrong, i wouldnt go back, it’s just difficult sometimes to screw them back on.
Just screw it backwards a little, it'll go "click" and it's ready to be screwed on in one turn
Just yoink it aside and it will stick. It's not rocket science.
I rip them off and I never recycle.
Edgyyyy.
No I just don't care because world's richest man quasi-president of the west is flying on private jets, sponsoring far-right parties globally which have popular support to take my rights away. Minor an inconvenience as this thing may be, I don't care enough even to tolerate it for one moment when the rich and powerful get away with so much. In fact - the way things are, the way people are - I have absolutely zero desire to see the environment saved or the people prosper.
But you go on ahead, suck the cuck cap and pray to your capitalist overlords. The EU is finished.
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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