They’ve become quite common in the uk over the last year or so too.
I believe it’s intended to make the material easier to process for recycling. Something about very small pieces of plastic (like loose bottle caps) being tough to properly sort at the plant, so they wanted a way for them to stay with the bottle instead.
I believe it’s intended to make the material easier to process for recycling.
Not exactly, the reason is that the caps often get thrown everywhere for some reason? So it’s to protect the environment from that, and this was the solution EU decided on. I bet UK uses it for compatibility with EU, so “evil” EU is still deciding changes in the UK even though UK is no longer a member.
bottle caps in France are designed to stay on, in Canada the bottle caps fall off and pollute the Ocean’s
They’ve become quite common in the uk over the last year or so too.
I believe it’s intended to make the material easier to process for recycling. Something about very small pieces of plastic (like loose bottle caps) being tough to properly sort at the plant, so they wanted a way for them to stay with the bottle instead.
You guys should rejoin the EU.
We know lol
Get cracking! 🫶
Not exactly, the reason is that the caps often get thrown everywhere for some reason? So it’s to protect the environment from that, and this was the solution EU decided on. I bet UK uses it for compatibility with EU, so “evil” EU is still deciding changes in the UK even though UK is no longer a member.