It's not your imagination: Beverage containers for milk, soda and water have gotten harder to open in recent years because their plastic screw top caps have been shortened to save plastic.

Malcolm McKie, a 35-year-old tax accountant in Toronto, said the serrated plastic edges of the caps tickled his mustache while sipping sugary sodas this summer in London. He said the cap also ...

Tossing that plastic water bottle in the blue bin? Good for you. Just don't forget the cap. Because, according to new guidance from the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), caps and bottles not ...

Completely biodegradable solution to replace conventional petroleum-based plastic bottle cap Commerce, California--(Newsfile Corp. - March 14, 2024) - Beyond Plastic has introduced the first-ever ...

A recent switch towards plastic bottle caps which remain attached has had almost the reverse effect from that intended – ie. to cut down on the use of plastics – "Aktuaalne kaamera" (AK) reported ...

BOTTLE MAKERS TO TETHER CAPS TO BOTTLES. SPONSORS OF THIS PROPOSAL SAY SINGLE USE PLASTIC CAPS ARE EASILY SEPARATED FROM BOTTLES, REDUCING THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THEY’LL BE RECYCLED. A NUMBER OF ...

In Heinz’s squeezable upside-down ketchup bottle, the plastic cap is designed to dispense a ... to recycle,” says Jonah Smith, global head of ESG at Kraft Heinz. “It’s possible, it ...

You may have bought a drink recently and noticed something odd: the once removable cap is now tethered to the bottle by a small strip of plastic. Manufacturers have included the tether on bottles ...