Fobruker, OA | – And then the imagination has been exhausted for this year, OA?

– A bad solution, which makes it much more cumbersome to open the bottles,

This is how an OA reader describes the new Coca-Cola bottle caps.

On the OA Facebook page, there’s no question that it’s Christmas Day and the shops are closed. A case involving Coca-Cola’s new caps has received nearly a hundred comments from disappointed readers.

eu kork

The purpose of the new caps, introduced in September, is to anticipate an EU requirement that will take effect from 2024. According to the requirement, all caps on soda bottles must be attached to the bottle to reduce the amount of plastic waste that end up in nature.

However, both Ringnes and Infinitum objected to the claim, and it was this case that weighed on the reactions of OA readers on Christmas Day.

– Hopeless, writes a frustrated reader.

– No physic for a cap, notes another.

– Cork dung, bring the wick, writes a third.

Some take the step out of sheer frustration and believe the cap is a symbol of relinquishment of sovereignty and servility to the EU.

– Good thing we’re not in the EU then, so we don’t have any idiotic EU demands. No, wait…, writes one reader.

Prefer the new one

But there are some readers who are more willing to embrace the massive upheavals in the cork industry.

– I think it’s more than good, indeed after getting used to it I prefer them to the old caps, writes the progressive reader.

However, there are also some who use the comment section trenches to take up the fight against the media coverage of the Christmas space:

– And then the imagination for the newspaper articles has been exhausted for this year, OA? Isn’t there a poor man who slipped off the road or received a scary message at Christmas?