Tethered bottle tops

Corporation pop for me. I don’t buy pop.
How ever I do open my mums bottled water, I just thought it was a mistake that these tops were attached! Until the next delivery landed.
I just snipped off the top.
Is that is why they are attached, to stop people littering?

I now buy UK Buxton water. Old style screw caps that disengage fully. Lovely. Local water to me too. 😁

Yet again the ordinary people pay the price for the corporate greed. WE, the people are left to tidy up their mess! It was their greed that switched us from the use of re-useable glass bottles, to these abominable plastic things. I would HAPPILY go back to glass. These tethered tops are an absolute nightmare, for those with restricted sight, causing many problems (and spills)! Before their introduction, the vast majority of people would always put the tops back on before disposal, anyway. All they've done is to create problems for those that had no problems with the old system. Of course it doesn't affect the privileged few in power, as they have minions to open their bottles for them, in the same way that vacuum cleaner power restrictions don't affect them, 'cos they don't do their own cleaning! They employ cleaners who use industrial strength vacuum cleaners, no longer available to the general public! A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF "I'M ALRIGHT JACK!"

lemsip

our milk bottle lids are not 'attached' but always screwed back on bottle when empty, after rinsing of course.

Sorry, I misunderstood.

our milk bottle lids are not 'attached' but always screwed back on bottle when empty, after rinsing of course.

lemsip

to recycle bottles the lids have to be on them! especially milk bottles. they have attached them because we were throwing the lids away and they need to be on the bottle!

Our milk bottles do not have attached lids yet. Lids are in two parts first green tear off strip which shows the milk hasn’t been opened and then the lid which screws on and off the carton whilst this is in use.
We leave the lids on when we recycle. But the strips are just dropped into the recycling bin.

to recycle bottles the lids have to be on them! especially milk bottles. they have attached them because we were throwing the lids away and they need to be on the bottle!

I sympathise with the arthritis sufferers.
My Nan’s ability to open screw to containers slowly diminished whilst she was living with us.
At first it was only those safety tops that require squeezing the sides first, that she needed help with.
Then gradually she had to leave any screw tops loose or she couldn’t undo them.
I don’t know how she’d have coped now. How do sufferers cope with any screw tops?

ruthie2

I have arthritic thumb joints and these caps are an absolute menace. Once again the pwers that be are doing everything they can to make life difficult for old people. Thus far, i've saved a few frequntly used bottle sizes with ordinary lids and I'll go on decanting the new liquids into these as long as the traditional lids survive. NB Tesco use very thin plastic on their one litre tomato juice bottles and tonic water bottles. So thin that once you've opened one of those thrice-damned lids it's impossble to close them up again - the plastic just wobbles around and preventes you.
I can't believe the amount of trouble (pouches etc) some of you go to to recycle. It all gets thrown in together later on!
Er - who takes one litre bottles of tomato juice on picnics anyway? I've a good mind to cut these disgraceful lids in half, go outside and throw the 2 halves in different directions, thus registering my protest at another attempt to control our lives. Forget about the planet. No amount of fannying around with bits of plastic is going to make any difference so we might as well keep our fingernails intact!

They're a nightmare for parents trying to give a drink to a thirsty little one while carrying them, or someone carrying a bag of shopping. In fact as ruthie2 implies, making life difficult for anyone who hasn't got 2 hands to dedicate to the job. Isn't that ableist?

I’ve only seen them on my oat milk containers, which are not recyclable anyway, being plastic lined cardboard.

I personally líke them, so much easier than sometimes losing the lid (which has happened to me/

I do use a refillable water bottle, but are people supposed to do if you are out and about and need a drink, but realise you've forgotten to bring your refillable bottle with you? Sometimes buying water is unavoidable.

I have arthritic thumb joints and these caps are an absolute menace. Once again the pwers that be are doing everything they can to make life difficult for old people. Thus far, i've saved a few frequntly used bottle sizes with ordinary lids and I'll go on decanting the new liquids into these as long as the traditional lids survive. NB Tesco use very thin plastic on their one litre tomato juice bottles and tonic water bottles. So thin that once you've opened one of those thrice-damned lids it's impossble to close them up again - the plastic just wobbles around and preventes you.
I can't believe the amount of trouble (pouches etc) some of you go to to recycle. It all gets thrown in together later on!
Er - who takes one litre bottles of tomato juice on picnics anyway? I've a good mind to cut these disgraceful lids in half, go outside and throw the 2 halves in different directions, thus registering my protest at another attempt to control our lives. Forget about the planet. No amount of fannying around with bits of plastic is going to make any difference so we might as well keep our fingernails intact!

tanith

The trick is to break one side so there is one small piece attached easy to screw back up then

Yes that’s what I do, keeps the cap with the bottle for recycling, but makes it easier to pour/drink/ and then screw the cap back on.

It's difficult to avoid plastic anyway now.

Yes, I’m afraid I’m guilty as charged.

Tut tut.

I bought thermos type flasks for cold water but noticed that the water becomes bubbly in them, very odd. No need for sparkling water.

Allira

Why would anyone buy bottles of water?
How did the world population survive before water was put into plastic bottles?

I confess to buying bottles of water, but only to keep in my car for when I’m out. I need water available all the time because I need to take four hourly medication. Plus I suffer from irritable bladder if I don’t drink enough liquid through the day.

These tops are on other bottles though as well as water bottles; they’re on juice bottles and some squash bottles. I buy freshly squeezed orange juice regularly and other juices, plus I always have squash in because some of my family prefer it to tea or coffee.

I’ll go and sit on the naughty step 🙁

petra

ALANaV

I stopped buying ANY bottles of water with those horrible tiny lid attachments ..many times children are unable to screw them back on (nor me !) and the contents go all over the sofa or wherever ! It is probably more environmentally friendly to buy ordinary ones and just screw the top back on ! I have now found 6 packs of sparkling water WITHOUT the screw tops ...I now only buy that make !

it is probably more environmentally friendly to by ordinary ones etc etc.
It’s also environmentally friendly to have one/two bottles and fill from your tap
Where do you think all that plastic crap is dumped. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes are buried in fields in Poland, Turkey.

And they blame cows for climate change.

Anything but humans!

Why would anyone buy bottles of water?
How did the world population survive before water was put into plastic bottles?

If you can remove cap and ring from the bottle in one piece, a few could be used as hangers for your wardrobe. Put a hole in the cap and put over a coat hanger. Suspend another coat hanger from the ring. It helps to save space hanging shirts one below the other.

ALANaV

I stopped buying ANY bottles of water with those horrible tiny lid attachments ..many times children are unable to screw them back on (nor me !) and the contents go all over the sofa or wherever ! It is probably more environmentally friendly to buy ordinary ones and just screw the top back on ! I have now found 6 packs of sparkling water WITHOUT the screw tops ...I now only buy that make !

it is probably more environmentally friendly to by ordinary ones etc etc.
It’s also environmentally friendly to have one/two bottles and fill from your tap
Where do you think all that plastic crap is dumped. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes are buried in fields in Poland, Turkey.

Theres nothing smug about learning how easy it is by watching a démonstration.
It actually helps you if you have arthritic
Hands because it is so easy

I stopped buying ANY bottles of water with those horrible tiny lid attachments ..many times children are unable to screw them back on (nor me !) and the contents go all over the sofa or wherever ! It is probably more environmentally friendly to buy ordinary ones and just screw the top back on ! I have now found 6 packs of sparkling water WITHOUT the screw tops ...I now only buy that make !

petra

Has anyone else been following the series Buried ( file on 4)
Our whole waste disposal industry has been corrupted, together with many council officials.
One episode told us that 99% of waste disposal companies are connected to organised crime.
They stated that the environment agencies have given up.
One of the team fitted a tracker to plastic bottle to what h where it went: it was burnt in Denmark. This was from Manchester.
It was stated ( I don’t know if it was in the episode linked) but the industry is rife with employing undocumented migrants.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0024sff

Yes, Petra I've been listening to it too. It's alarming. Is this the tip of the iceberg I wonder. How many other industries are being taken over and corrupted like this?

I cut the tops to separate them only if the containers are staying in the house and they're making use difficult. Some are ok. I quite like them on drinks I'm having 'out' as I don't have to worry about losing the lids.

My hate at the moment is the semi-transparent lids on milk plastic bottles. Done to aid recycling. The number of times I've tried to pour milk and found the top still on is depressing. Is it my age?