it's a secret mom's campaign to stop drinking out of the bottle....

If you can't outright solve a problem you shouldn't try to improve the situation >:(

If you cannot stop the bleeding, reduce it until you can

There is a patch of garbage on the pacific the size of a small continent but its still legal to sell single use plastic containers.

How many years do these people think we have?

Another symbolic act so that they can pretend they did something for the environment and don't have to actually tackle the major problems which could cut into profits of big companies.

Also anyone got fucked over by the bottle cap spinning in the way of the pour spilling drink all over the table?

This explains a lot.

It's also annoying because my recycling bin for plastics wants the bottle but for some reason not the caps. They are to go in rhe general waste

that explains why those all suddenly become attached

Oh, that's why every beverage now has these shitty caps. Worth it if it helps fight pollution tho

I mean that's less stupid than "Paper Straws"

I'm still flabbergasted that neither France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria nor Poland have Pfand (aka a money back deposit thing) for plastic bottles. It's such an integrated part of my life, that I wonder why other countries haven't adopted it.

Am I the only one who loves the new cap design?

Ah so that’s why all caps suddenly suck :/. stubbornly pulls cap off of the bottle

If you pull hard enough the cap comes off just like before. Very effective legislation and use of resources.

My girlfriend can't screw them back on properly so right now she only uses each drinks bottle once

I hate the things so much because they hurt to use, can't really be used one-handed and also make it difficult to drink from the bottle because of the weird angles they implicate.

So I've been cutting the caps off and cutting the little limbs off and making what was previously one piece of plastic into three, which I obviously also hate doing.

In the past I would always screw the lid back on before binning it, either to trap the air out or for the sake of completeness, so in my particular case this policy is very much the worst of all worlds, I hope the data shows that I'm an edge case though if they're passing it into law.

my biggest pain in 2023...

Every cap should just be like those water bottle caps that pop up and down, and then use less plastic by making them unremovable.

Wouldn't that prevent people from refilling the bottles?