I remember being annoyed by these captive lids when they were introduced. Now it just feels wrong when lids aren't whenever I travel outside Europe.
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Hated so much by Reform that they import bottled water from Turkey to avoid having “woke lids” at their conferences.
So you left the EU for nothing???
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I feel like I was just constantly going "where did I put that lid?" "Have you seen my lid?"
Can't even tell you how many times I had to snort disapprovingly at someone asking "uhh can I borrow your lid for a sec."
A whole cultural phenomenon that just vanished overnight.
Gen Alpha will grow up not understanding most of our lid-based humour in those old sitcom episodes.
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But how do you open the bottle one handed, drop the lid, and then are forced to hold the open bottle while driving?
Is everyone in this thread roleplaying or something (genuine)
The captive lid is to keep the small thing attached to the big thing because the small thing is one of the big contributors to ocean plastic pollution
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I went to Wales recently and they didn't have them! My car still stinks of Dr Pepper from all the spills
This post just made me realise I haven't been to the UK since these were introduced.
Recycling practice changes from country to country (and regions within countries) so much. You're not a true "citizen of the world" unless you know which places you remove the lid, the lid and the plastic ring, or leave both on.
Definitely caused way more problems than it solved.
Have found several carbonated drinks flat in our fridge as these caps are harder to put on straight.
Spoke to someone who’d leaked drink all over their backpack and liquid damaged their MacBook by a cap like this not screwing on properly.
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why didn't they just put a second, fake, bottle top next to the real one, sans lid.
So when you take the lid off, you screw it onto the other top. Move it back to close.
This is some of the most nanny state shit I've ever see.
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