Forget about the EVs, here’s how the EU will save the whales
If anyone still needed a proof that the Eurocrats and the Green Nazis are the most patent retards the humankind has ever seen (except maybe for the State of California, to which, according to the list of over 900 substances listed in Proposition 65, even the wood dust is “known to cause cancer” since December 18, 2009), the latest PET bottles cap introduced in 2023 are a strong argument.
This is a requirement of the EU Directive 2019/904:
DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/904 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 5 June 2019 on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment
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Whereas:
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(17) Caps and lids made of plastic which are used for beverage containers are among the single-use plastic items that are found the most on beaches in the Union. Therefore, beverage containers that are single-use plastic products should only be allowed to be placed on the market if they fulfil specific product design requirements that significantly reduce the dispersal into the environment of beverage container caps and lids made of plastic. For beverage containers that are both single-use plastic products and packaging, that requirement is in addition to the essential requirements on the composition and the re-usable and recoverable, including recyclable, nature of packaging set out in Annex II to Directive 94/62/EC.
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Article 6
Product requirements1. Member States shall ensure that single-use plastic products listed in Part C of the Annex that have caps and lids made of plastic may be placed on the market only if the caps and lids remain attached to the containers during the products’ intended use stage.
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They should award an Ig Nobel to whoever thought of tethered caps.
Their propaganda machine now tries to justify this stupid idea: Why are bottle caps attached to the bottle? Inside the EU directive causing drink spills everywhere.
Yeah, sure. The bottle caps represent maybe 0.01% from the total mass of plastic that’s used and discarded. But, regardless, in more than 99% of the cases, the recipients were discarded with the cap anyway!
And how is this changed by the new legislation?! Those retards are really brainless!
In a parallel Universe, people throw the caps away, then… what do they do with the bottle?! In our real world, 99.9% of the bottles are still having their caps on, even after they’re discarded.