The new #euro notes should feature peak european innovation.

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@francoismandil No, no details, but is was made by a very reputable Swedish organisation that specialises in reducing litter. I only have the report and a news article about it, both unfortunately only available in Swedish:

https://hsr.se/sites/default/files/2026-04/Skraprapporten-2026-FINAL-webb.pdf

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/helsingborg/strandskrapet-okar-trots-lagkrav-plastkorkar-tredubblade

[xeno@hexokina.se]

@remaster@mastodon.social @magezwitscher@det.social you’ll want to have “universal standard charging directive” in more than just English since euro notes are multilingual but other than that extremely important post-ruining oversight (/s) I love it

[pictopulse356@mastodon.social]

@remaster I love it

[grishka@friends.grishka.me]

It's funny, but in all honesty, I don't get it why people are so furious about these bottle caps. I visited the EU in 2024, and the first time I bought a drink with one of these, I thought to myself, "huh, interesting, and quite convenient actually".

[willi@hachyderm.io]

@magezwitscher the cookie banner is malicious compliance not an eur regulation...

[sillycoelophysis@hachyderm.io]

@willi @magezwitscher I don't see how that makes it less applicable. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's the point.

[bubblegumyeti@mastodon.social]

@keesjanb @remaster fuck those losers

[trinsec@trinsec.org]

@keesjanb@mastodon.vlaanderen @remaster@mastodon.social The cap is actually great, but there are bottles with shitty caps that's too lose. The right cap is just tight enough that it basically 'clicks' open and stays in place and won't ever cover the hole when you pour out your drink.

[catboycody@tech.lgbt]

@remaster
The number of times I accidentally spilt water over myself while drinking increased a lot thanks to this bs...
And some of the water bottles at work have an especially shitty cap that you cannot properly close again w/o ripping the cap off first.
And the scratches to lips and nose...

Thanks to all the idiots that threw their waste into the environment.

Well... At least this didn't break our Reverse Vending Machine software. Was seeing me adapting our bottle detection to this abomination for weeks on end already when those came out...

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@remaster *hissss!*

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[remaster@mastodon.social]

@CatboyCody Yeah, probably some variants of this are cheaply made and lousy design.

[willi@hachyderm.io]

@sillyCoelophysis maybe i am to invested in what was supposed to be shitposting, - but seeing what @noybeu is working on and how bigtech noW wants to "save" the cookie banner maybe makes it a good 5eur bill, but i doubt that everybody in the EU would know the latest of this charade.

[darcmoughty@infosec.exchange]

@remaster A note with a bunch of esoteric safety warning signs in different languages would be unifying.

Every time I'm in the EU or UK, I am fascinated by the things in public they choose to warn me about.

[mawhrin@circumstances.run]

@ahltorp @keesjanb @remaster or, and hear me out now because i will tell you the mysteries of magick, you can rotate the cap 180° and it will stay there.

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@mawhrin @keesjanb @remaster Or, and hear me out now, you can not throw away the cap even when it isn't attached to the bottle!

If you think telling people "you're doing it wrong" is a solution, we could just have said that and no redesign would have been necessary, right?

The new design of the caps has major flaws, something the corresponding design change for aluminium cans didn't have. That design just works, and no one thinks about it, and we don't have aluminium tabs lying around anymore.

[mawhrin@circumstances.run]

@ahltorp @keesjanb @remaster i'm not telling that you're doing it wrong, i'm telling you why i don't mind. and you're still free to remove the cap and complain about the bad eu proscribing the banana curve.

[mattmoose@mastodon.world]

@ahltorp @bill88t @Elektrotier @remaster
The vast majority of handy-sized plastic drinks bottles here in UK do seem to have attached lids. I didn't understand it when it first came out, so perhaps some ppl still don't embrace the idea. Still, IMO it's greenwashing the fact of single use disposable plastics. I don't think my municipality are too clear about exactly what happens to our carefully pre-sorted recyclables, caps attached or not.

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ahltorp @bill88t @Elektrotier @remaster so it's coincidental.

[doomed_daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@grishka @remaster
they are not the same on all bottles, some are more annoying than others.
for example if they can't easily be screwed back on again.
or if the cap always slides/rotates to the lower side where your lip should be.

but all in all it's just pointless symbol politics, annoying without solving a significant part of the problem of plastic pollution

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@lritter Then the same thing could be said for less littering of caps in general. No, it's not reasonable to just dismiss it as chance.