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.
PET bottles are actually the most recycled or their plastic upcycled. But yeah, needs to die.
Maybe, but PET still contributes to the microplastics problem and I wouldn’t be surprised if the recycling process adds more PET microplastics to the atmosphere so they can be carried around the planet.
Yeah, PET is great for recycling.
Here, 87% of all PET bottles are recycled.
wherew is that? come on dude if youre going to flex on your country’s recyling rate with a specific percentage write the name of the dang country please
I live in the Nordics which all have a pretty good recycling rate overall.
the just started doing pfand return here in ireland for cans and plastic bottles, but not glass bottles (we throw those into a bottle bank)
Pant is great.