The new #euro notes should feature peak european innovation.

[photovince@mastodon.social]

@remaster This is probably meant as a joke, but honestly what isn’t there to like?

It’s simple and effective and the burden of implementation was put on the drink manufacturers.

That doesn’t negate the success in European collaboration at the other end of the spectrum. Airbus outsells Boeing almost 2:1, Ariane launches the JWSS at such precision it *doubles* the telescope’s life span. Galileo is a top-notch (if not the best) GNSS.

So I’ll take your bottle caps

[oleksify@mastodon.social]

@remaster What’s the problem with plastic bottle caps? Reasonable improvement. I don’t really get the logic behind alm the jokes. I mean, it’s understandable when some MAGA idiots do it, but this is the first time I saw it on Mastodon feed.

[titia@toot.community]

@ahltorp @lritter the fact that it is a localised phenomenon does seem to point at geographical causes (waste carried over from UK, Norway?). We know that sea currents can carry stuff an incredibly long way.

[titia@toot.community]

@ahltorp also, you might want to edit your earlier comment to read "some beaches" if, as you say, it's concentrated on the western beaches. Otherwise it is all too easy to share your comment out of context to make it seem like a universal phenomenon.

@lritter

[konosocio@mastodon.green]

@remaster yes, and add how it improved our lives: less litter, less wildlife hurt.

[placandeker@infosec.exchange]

@photovince @remaster Was any of these technologies developed in the last 10 years? Ariane 5 debuted in 1996.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@remaster Needs a cookie pop-up on the €50 note!

[knodel@mastodon.de]

@viennawriter @magezwitscher @remaster

Refugee camps in Africa, Frontex, ...

[kolya@social.cologne]

@ahltorp @bill88t @Elektrotier @remaster
so the answer is assholes? I can't believe it

[kolya@social.cologne]

@remaster @catsalad
I want one with a USB-C jack then, kthx

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@titia But what happened in 2024?

[reynir@social.data.coop]

@magezwitscher @remaster 4G *and* 5G? Amazing!

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@kolya @bill88t @Elektrotier @remaster The answer was always assholes. Who else disposes of their bottle caps in nature in the first place, with or without attachment?

[derderwish@social.chaotikum.org]

@magezwitscher @remaster The 500 € notes have been discontinued.

[titia@toot.community]

@ahltorp the attached caps came into use in the spring and summer, and that has to be taken into account, of course. Were the bottle caps found on these beaches the attached sort, i.e. was it obvious that they had been torn off?

[derderwish@social.chaotikum.org]

@Elektrotier @remaster
It did shape bottle design even outside the EU and reduces plastic pollution and the swallowing of bottle caps by animals. So it kind of is peak European invention by regulating the industry.

[adrianthomas@mastodon.social]

@remaster @gruber Anecdotal, but I didn’t spot a single bottle cap lying in the sand at the beach this summer, used to be a common sight. One report states 47% fewer caps found on beaches in the Netherlands.
Seems worth it?

[derderwish@social.chaotikum.org]

@keesjanb @remaster
It does reduce the amount of plastic trash in the sea and the swallowing of bottle caps by animals. So, this slight inconvenience saves animal lives.

[kolya@social.cologne]

@magezwitscher @Stinkstiefel @remaster
now that's more like it!

[remaster@mastodon.social]

@photovince I would say it’s both a joke and serious, because it’s a good innovation for the environment, but at the same time it has a reputation of being annoying, literally in your eye, and that’s perhaps not something you brag about in this manner. 🤭