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 their way into the environment and pose an enormous risk to wildlife.
