Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's not your imagination: Beverage containers for milk, soda and water have gotten harder to open in recent years because their ...

SAN FRANCISCO – A small annoyance in American’s beverage interactions may be getting a little less exasperating. Shorter, thinner plastic caps that proliferated on milk, juice and other liquid cartons ...

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 ...

Plastic spouts for cardboard milk and juice cartons were first introduced in 1990. The Spout-Pak was a product of International Paper, which made milk cartons, a market that was steadily eroding as ...