• @[email protected]
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    2118 days ago

    When cleaning up beaches and the like, those caps are the litter they found the most.

    People lost them or didn’t bother to pick them up because they are so small. Unlike with the bottles themselves.

    Since they switched to the new caps, the amount of caps found has decreased significantly.

    So yes, they work. It is all based on data.

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        218 days ago

        I’m only complaining about all the people that apparently regularly lost bottle caps. I don’t think that has happened to me ever… Not the end of the world and if it reduces litter I’ll deal with it but I curse these people every time one of the new caps is being annoying to screw back on.

      • socsa
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        68 days ago

        OP is a 2 day old account. If you haven’t figured it out yet, there is a massive anti-progress astroturfing campaign all over the Internet, and it’s little shit like this which quietly switches people into cynical brain rot. Memes are bumper sticker politics, and you should always be skeptical of them when they are pushing any narrative.

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      158 days ago

      Also, the caps separated from the bottle fall through dinky cracks easier, like street drain covers) and get lost easier (or drop out of the bottom of the bin easier, etc.), being attached to the large bottle makes that more difficult to occur.