Check your package
Packaging is really getting on my nerves. It seems as if every year the material gets thicker and more cumbersome. I find that a substantial portion of my daily garbage is packaging material. Clamshell packages are dangerous--I've gotten cut several times trying to cut through the plastic. I recently bought an SD memory card that was in a package roughly the size of a shoe box.
Is it all to stop shoplifting? Is it inventory control? Is it to make it easier to shelf-stack the packages?
So often you buy digital goods that come in thick, hefty garbage--software in huge boxes, DVDs in great big marketing blisters and even small, plastic gift cards sold in great big honking packages.
I'm not particularly eco-conscious. My recycling bone is worn to a nub---but retailers have to be stopped.
Posted on August 22, 2007
