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Lydia Stephens

The really good reason bottle caps on Coca-Cola and other soft drinks are suddenly so hard to open

New bottle caps on fizzy drinks which are designed to be more environmentally-friendly have been branded "tricky to open". Customers have complained about how the top cap is now trickier to detach from the ring on the bottle, but the new design isn't a "flaw" that it might seem to be.

Last year the Coca-Cola brand revealed it would be making the swap to attached caps in a bid to keep all the packaging together - making it easier to recycle. It also makes the small cap less likely to be littered.

So if you have found it difficult to remove the top cap from your favourite bottle of pop recently - that's the whole point. Coca-Cola, who have teamed up with manufacturer Berry for the change, won't be the last brand to implement this change, as it is set to become mandatory across the EU.

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