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.

  • scrion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    I buy water in glass bottles. They started having these “updated” plastic caps. I burn with rage.

      • Mr_Blott@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        4 months ago

        A lot of people live in undeveloped countries where you can’t drink out of the tap. You know like Russia and America

        • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Hey, some of us recognize the importance of living in a country where your local government realizes they can turn more profit and cut costs by poisoning their constituents through everything, especially food and water!

          Look at all the money that was made that went to their private bank accounts and tell me it’s wrong!