Tethered bottle caps need more slack

I see a lot of people moaning about tethered bottle caps.

Understandably so — they’re annoying.

Not just for drinking either, despite our poor noses being used to take a good scratching and squashing from them. 👃

A couple of days ago, I had the misfortune of spilling some fruit juice. I was attempting to pour it into a mug before realising I had the bottle the wrong way around. The juice splashed off the lid onto the kitchen tablecloth, causing an unnecessary spillage to clean up.

That particular cap was one of the worst I’ve encountered. It was so tightly attached to the bottleneck it was strangling it — there was barely any wriggle room.

It made me think, this is ridiculous.

However, I suddenly had an ingenious idea: imagine if tethered bottle caps had more slack. That would allow us to comfortably pour or drink from any 360º position instead of being restricted to 180º.

Hopefully, common sense will prevail, and we’ll get longer tethers that stop us feeling the need to yank the damn things off.

It’s great we’re thinking of the environment, but at the same time, let’s not ruin the consumer experience for everyone.