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109 Times Product Packaging Was So Wrong, People Couldn’t Stay Silent Any Longer
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Food packaging waste equals to about one-third of all trash, costing governments billions of dollars each year in disposal expenses. Bored Panda has collected a set of images, proving this huge plastic waste contributor to the global waste crisis could be reduced significantly.
Product packaging solutions often become the subjects of heated debates. While the eco-minded consumers want it to be as minimal as possible (meaning fully recyclable), manufacturers often fire back that they don't want their products to start decomposing in the store or become an easy target to shoplifters and put many layers of wasteful and entirely unnecessary plastic wrapping. And while some of their arguments have reasons behind them, a lot of the time the amount of plastic wrap is needlessly excessive. Do we need a pill to be wrapped in three layers of plastic? Or, better yet, casings for coke cans?
Now, we do agree that a zero waste life can be quite challenging to lead sometimes, but it is something we should all aspire to if we don't want to evacuate from our planet Earth in the near future.
Scroll down to learn why we need to rethink packaging and vote for the worst or most ridiculous images!
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If Only Nature Would Find A Way To Cover These Oranges So We Didn't Need To Waste So Much Plastic On Them
They have only done the easiest part.. I mean peeling the cover is nothing.. remove those white stringy (apparently it's called pith, didn't know this) thing.. That would be some help.
If Only Bananas Had Robust, Natural, Bio-Degradable Packaging Of Their Own. Some Sort Of Peelable Skin, Perhaps
The Amount Of Packaging For This One Single Pill
Amazon, I Don't Think The Box Was Big Enough
I Ordered 5lbs Of Sugar Free Jelly Belly's Online... They Arrived Individually Wrapped! Why?
New Laptop Came With Anti-Virus Program. I Only Needed The Security Key Code Underneath A Sticker On The Bar Code. A Huge Waste Of Plastic
Individually Packaged Slices Of Bread
Stack of 3-4 slices in 1 would make much more sense. This is plain stupid.
A Tic Tac Novelty Box That Has 60 Individual Boxes Each With 6 Tic Tacs... So Much Plastic
This Knife Is Far Too Small For The Packaging
That's advertusing! It's made that way to make you feel insecure about yourself...😁
So Much Waste
These Organic Oranges Individually Wrapped In Plastic
Less Waste They Say
top tip - leave some potatoes wrapped in tinfoil in various places around your house. then, in the event of a house fire, you'll have a delicious snack to eat while waiting for the fire brigade to arrive.
This SATA Packaging
they should fill those pouches with helium, would reduce the weight and cost of postage. they could then float the boxes to you?
There's Silly Amazon Packaging But Then There's This
Amazon Used Protective Packaging To Ship My Protective Packaging
These Individually Wrapped Premium Strawberries
I Purchased A Pallet At Work And It Arrived Today
So Much Wasted Plastic
These Gloves Must Be So Fragile...
dya reckon they get paid based on how much packaging they've sent out?
Does Anyone (Besides Me) Think It's Odd That These Organic Free-Range Eggs Come In A Plastic Container Rather Than An Environmentally Friendly Recycled Paper One?
Yes, it's odd. We also buy organiz free-range eggs and they come in a cardboard box, which we then recycle.
Inside This 30 X 30 X30 Cm Box From Sun Was Another Box. Inside That, Was Another Box. Inside That Was Some Foam And An Antistatic Strap + Bag... Inside That? A Cr2302 Battery, About The Size Of An Australian 10c Coin
They Sent Me This Tiny Micro SD Card (Red Thing On The Bottom Right) In This Huge Package. What A Waste Of Plastic
Dear Amazon Packaging Dept, You May Have Gone A Bit Overboard On Protecting This Burt's Bees Lotion. I'm Not Sure That This Size Box Or This Amount Of Protection Was Needed, But Thanks For Being Over Cautious
That tube of cream looks scared for being surrounded by those beefy Airbags.. :P
Why Are There So Many Wrapper Layers? I Just Want To Eat Some Candy
it's all part of the get healthy kick, you have to exercise a little before you get to eat it. kinda like putting your fridge up in the loft.
Unnecessary Packaging
Hi yeah is that the tea people? yeah, I've been dunking this bag for like, a week now and it's still not fusing. Yeah I'll hold"
How Extra Do You Need To Be To Buy Individual Shallot And Garlic Bulbs In Boxes Instead Of Loose?
What's The Point Of This?
the point? it's the lead, however, it's not actually lead its more graphite mixed with some other things, but it gives the same effect. A standard pencil would write for about 35miles, but I mean, who has ever needed to draw a line that long? a marathon is only 26.219 miles long, it used to be 26, but the royal family were sitting beyond the finish line, and insisted the winners cross the line past them, so they moved the finish line. anyway, I'm rambling, how are you?
This Nerds Easter Egg Contains A Single Box Of Nerds
Not only is that a waste, it's a dissatpointment too. All Easter Eggs should be chocolatey.
Unwrappig This Chicken Takes Longer Than Cooking It
I Ordered One Jar Of Honey Mustard And The Packaging Is A Little Excessive
100% Compostable Pods. 0% Compostable Packaging. Good One Mcdonald's
Following The Post On Amazon And Their Excess Packaging... I Give You My Cellophane Roll Complete With Huge Box And 55 Feet Of Paper
Look At These Lemons
Is This Packaging Really Necessary Zyrtec?
Wholefoods Is Selling Lemongrass *in A Plastic Box* And Charging $2.99 For Essentially Half A Piece Of It
The Ridiculous Amount Of Unnecessary Packaging This Load Of Bread Comes With
Asked For Bacon On The Side
I've Gotta Call Out Vans On This. My One Order Arrived In Two Packages Today, About 6 Hours Apart. The Second One Was My Youngest's Teeny Tiny Old Skool Shoes Rattling Around All Alone In This Gigantic Box
