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.

  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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    In my area, it through the recycling. Beer bottles have always been worth $0.05, so its worth it to return them to a depot. They also get sorted out if you leave them on the curb or takenby someone who wants the bottle deposit.

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      8 months ago

      Returning them through the deposit makes sense, but I never would think that the recycling pickup people would sort them. Ours just take it to the dump

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        8 months ago

        the recycling pickup people

        It’s not, it’s usually retirees or homeless people doing it for cash

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            It’s just a reverse change of distribution. The bottles go back to a central location (some regions that’s a bottle depot, other the point of sale then bottle depot). The bottle depot sorts and returns.