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.

  • @[email protected]
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    9 months ago

    You can bend them out of the way and they don’t break off I find that really useful.

    Especially for bottles and cartons that are poured into a glass.

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      49 months ago

      Yes and if you bend them out of the way, some become sharp and I poured a carton of milk. So no, I to not like them.

      To each their own except I have no (real) choice.

      • @[email protected]
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        19 months ago

        This really needs to be polled. I’m curious what opinions are

        Paper straws are unanimously awful but I am a huge fan of the attached bottle caps.