On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:04:35 +0100, Rod wrote:

Which is much more likely nowadays. Instead of touching the cad and lid
just once (to pour out the contents and drop the empty in the bin),

Yuk, not even rinsed so it goes all manky in the bin?

we are expected to rinse off both lid and can and bin them separately.

What? Can't you put the (metal) lid in with the (same metal) tin for
recycling? A 2l ice cream tub takes our tins and tin lids, tins a rinsed
and flattened before be placed in there.

I certainly have cut myself on cans due to this method of opening.
Accident prone? Maybe. Trying where sensible to avoid wickedly nasty
sharp edges? Yes, definitely.

So have I both from the fold out type of opener and our lift off one. I'm
intrigued by this "cut through the rim" type. We sort of need a new tin
opener as I said earlier it is ancient (20 years or more old) and the
surface of the plastic handles is starting to fail.

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Cheers
Dave.