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Why plastic bottles now have their caps attached

By Randa Lindsey Kachef, Lecturer in Geography, King's College London

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.

An EU directive was enacted in July, requiring that all single-use bottles have caps that remain attached. This is one of several policies designed to limit the amount of plastic litter – particularly the caps from single-use plastic bottles which are far more likely to find…

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