Thom, exceedingly pureJun 22, 2024

The EU enacted a new law a while ago that all bottle caps should remain attached to the bottle, to combat plastic trash.

All the bottle and packaging makers, from massive multinationals like Coca Cola and fucking Nestlé to small local producers invested in the development of new caps, changing their production lines, and shipping the new caps. Today, a month before the law goes into effect, it's basically impossible to find a bottle without an attached cap.

I don't know, I thought this story was weirdly relevant right now with Apple being a whiny bitch. Imagine being worse than Coca Cola and motherfucking Nestlé.

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@thomholwerda One interesting side point about these is that it's an EU law but (almost) all the bottles in the UK have changed.

Because of course, who's going to set up separate EU and UK production lines for no reason?

But the whole idea that Brexit puts us "outside" the influence of EU law is shown, in something as small as a bottle cap, to be nonsense.

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