Today, a long awaited item arrived which is brilliant. I am installing the enclosed software as we speak - now that I have finally got the wrapper off of it.
It gets me thinking about the amount of packing that crosses through my hands in a week. The jiffy bags, the food wrappers. Is it really all that necessary?
I'm sure in days past, they did without all of this wrapping, but these days its preposterous.
If I get an item from eBay, its often: an item within moulded plastic packaging, held in place by several cable ties, within an outer box (complete with cellophane window) within a jiffy bag.
And where prey does all of that excess packaging go?
Straight in the bin, that's where.
I understand that items need to feature branding and need to travel a long distance safely - but I'm sure that they could cut it down really. I'm sure that I wouldn't be bothered. I don't want the packaging, just the item after all.
Things are surprisingly crude if you think about it. We have to package items against the world in varying ways - but there must be some technology beyond what we are doing. Something lightweight, strong, but easy to reuse or biodegrade. Or an incentive for returning packaging for reuse - I don't know.
Food packaging too is ridiculous. We make nothing locally - and so items need to last for ever, cans, jars, foil packs, vacuum packs - it all takes it toll.
Even the laptop I rant on, came in carefully moulded polystyrene, an anti static pouch, a box, another box and finally another outer box.
We really should think of something better than all of this waste!
Rant over.
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