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.

The process, which takes about 20 hours in total, starts with the melting of bottle lid ... Each bench is made from around 15,000 plastic caps, varying from milk bottle lids, to water bottle ...

Tossing that plastic ... bottles with caps on, so the message to remove the cap was created." APR explains on its website. But times have changed. Here's how the great melting pot at the local ...

He's even recruited neighbors to collect the bottle caps ... melted in a pizza oven. And he's hoping his operation will grow to be able to make more things out of waste. "Today we work on plastic ...

Tesco is removing coloured plastic from its milk bottle caps in a move which it claims will create a new closed loop for almost 4,000 tonnes of plastic. The supermarket said it was scrapping blue, red ...

About 17% of U.S. milk was sold in paper cartons in 2023, compared with 82% sold in plastic jugs, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The shift to the new, shorter caps is mostly to ...