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.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      114·
      9 months ago

      Aluminium cans have a thin plastic liner inside them that’s almost impossible to recycle

      Confidently incorrect as a motherfucker.

      You’re saying without hesitation that one of the most recycled and recyclable materials ever created is flat out not recyclable. What the fuck?

          • Rbnsft@lemm.eeEnglish
            11·
            9 months ago

            It makes it Hard to recycle… Because splitting aluminium from Plastik isnt easy

            • Enk1@lemmy.worldEnglish
              31·
              9 months ago

              Yes, it is actually. You melt the aluminum and skim off any remaining plastic and contaminants from the top of the molten aluminum. It’s a standard, millenniums old process for any metal working.

    • TwoCubed@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Cans are great from an energy-consumption point of view when viewing the entire lifecycle of a can.