The plastic caps on milk cartons have gotten 21% shorter, to save weight. Water bottles are also thinner with shorter tops.

In other words, they could be an unexpected way to add visual flair to your home. Making one from those bottle caps you're ...

More and more people are complaining that it's getting really hard to twist off bottle caps. They say that the shorter caps make them less grippable. Patrick Krieger, a plastics industry expert, says ...

Bottles are typically easy to recycle, but what do you do with the cap after recycling the bottle? Unfortunately, bottle caps ...

Califia’s V31 vision inspection system is equipped with three cameras for identification and removal of high caps, damaged ...

Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) introduced a bill for bottle manufacturers to tether caps to bottles by 2027.

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 ...

Tzu Chi volunteers contributed 20 kilograms of plastic bottle caps and rings to the Department of Science and ...

plastic circular-shaped bottles with a thinning neck and a crown-like bottle cap, known as a carafe. Over the summer, it rolled out a more traditional-looking plastic bottle and downsized the ...

The same cap shortening has happened in soda and water The plastic lids for plastic soda pop and water bottles got smaller first. A study by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality found ...