Now I feel old ... bottle tops

It's been discussed before. That must have passed you by as well.

Here's a suggestion... stop being a gammon, learn to live with the changing world and accept that this change will result in better recycling.

Rather the point of the post. Thanks for repeating it.

The vast majority of green measures are s**te. Low flush toilets that need two flushes being an example. That said, as a "gammon" I did post a celebration of the 1.4GW solar energy farms just approved, to signal my contentment with such. I would suggest you f*ck right off, but it would be beneath me.

Well as an ardent brexiteer I cant say I really give a f*ck one way or another: Ther are more important things like Milliband's slavish adherence to the 'renewable obligation' that every EU country has quitely ignored

Strangeley my Waitrose Essential milk bottle has a removable cap still.

ROFLMAO!

Ive seen the whole recycling s*it fr9omn the day people started getting excited about it and all that has happened is more fly tipping

That's because there was none.

I could agree more, but generally am on your bus on this matter.

Strange. That is the one thing that really gets my goat. Massive destruction of arable and grazing land to add instability to the grid and a right shift of the decimal point on my electricity bill

I would suggest you f*ck right off, but it would

I notice my oat milk of choice (Oatley) has had a constellation of cap types this past year. Sometimes at the same time.

In the scale of things it's a minor irritation. Like those f****ng cookie popups.

It's only in the last ten months or so that my local council has been accepting bottle tops for recycling, having previously accepted the bodies of bottles as the only type of recyclable plastic.

Milk bottle lids have all become translucent white, as supposedly the coloured tops could not be recycled.

Somehow WWII and iron railings come to mind.

Don't forget the aluminium saucepans...

-- “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”

― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

"f*ck off with your attachy-liddy-things"

Le 26/07/2024 à 11:15, Jethro_uk a écrit :

OMG! THE EU! COMMUNISMS!

Well myself and SWMBO both missed any. It was only an article in the Telegraph today that alerted me and made me go "Ah, that explains it".

Of course what is not explained is why Brexit Britain, under a Brexit Tory government is forced to accept these dreadful Euro-thingys ? Especially when "Brexit Bottle Tops" is a three word slogan that just happens by accident. No brainpower needed.

They are actually malformed - end of.

And this business of all milk bottles with the same colour top is also horsepiss. It's another thing to take care of when mixing up the green milk and the red milk - with the lids as a simple means of indicating that we'd mixed the milk. And all because they don't sell orange milk any more. The point was that after mixing, we put the red lid on the green bottle, and vice versa. So if SWMBO mixed the milk up, I could immediately tell that I didn't have to do it - and vice versa.

I think you will find we have a Labour government. Which like its predecessor is bending over backwards to absolutely pass every EU law into UK law to make rejoining easier

Only if you don't do what I do, which is to rip the attached cap off so I can drink from the bottle without getting the cap up my nose.

Mind you, I do usually screw the cap back on afterwards so any liquid remaining doesn't get out and leave a mess, so it all works out OK in the end.

And if you pulled your head out of your arse*, you'd realise that this change has been months if not years coming all of which was under the eyes of Boris, Liz Truss, and Sunak. The very worst you can accuse Labout of doing is ignoring it.

More to the point, products which are sold in both the UK and EU have to comply with the EU rules. Oatly is Swedish and presumably they ship to both, perhaps from the same manufacturing plant. Often it's common for products to have both UK and Ireland addresses on them, so the same product works for both. I suspect it's so that supply chains can serve (at least) NI and Ireland without having the expense of separate distribution channels.

The UK can have 'freedom' from these rules, but in practice not when they meet reality.

Theo

Stop being realistic.