Bless the beverage gods for ring pulls, the small aluminium slivers that separate the outside world from your favourite carbonated tipple ... no more flat fizz for you. You'd also be pretty grateful for   them if your a limbless Thai person: the Thailand Prosthesis Foundation recycles ring pulls into brand new legs for the extremity-impaired (one kilo of tabs = two legs apparently). And that's certainly a lot more useful than carelessly discarding them, only to have them end up being imbedded like some metallic fossil in the tarmac, right? DP

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