What taxpayer time and money. The change request is literally reinforcing one plastic tab.

If you want to hyperbole at least find a valid thing.

I have absolutely no idea how much the legislation has cost but the actual implementation is done by each manufacturer individually so that is not taxpayer money, and I haven't noticed containers become more expensive either. So this sounds like a bit of a made up argument to me

I'd argue that the fully removable cap is very slightly broken, from experience.

Do they need to do anything? Why they felt (supposedly) compelled to is a different question, and I'm sure if you research it you'll find your answer.