Plastic water bottle caps are color coded based on the type of water: blue caps indicate "spring water"; black caps signify alkaline water; green caps signal flavored water, and white caps mean ...

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. Manufacturers have included the tether on bottles sold ...

It's not your imagination: Beverage containers for milk, soda and water have gotten harder to open in recent years because their plastic screw top caps have been shortened to save plastic. It's a ...

BOTTLE MAKERS TO TETHER CAPS TO BOTTLES. SPONSORS OF THIS PROPOSAL SAY SINGLE USE PLASTIC CAPS ARE EASILY SEPARATED FROM BOTTLES, REDUCING THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THEY’LL BE RECYCLED. A NUMBER OF STUDIES ...

How Are Plastic Bottles Made? Plastics are made from oil or natural gas, which are made of molecules called hydrocarbons. When you heat hydrocarbons to very high temperatures, they break down into ...

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 ...

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