This is an interesting article about excess packaging of entertainment and electric goods. Having been through a couple of birthdays already, it seems that the idea of heavy-duty plastic ties to hold toys in their boxes is here to stay.
Wired points out that it's there to stop theft, but I thought that's what the door scanners were for, or the plain-clothes store detectives, or the RFID tags.
The real point, though, is that manufactures deem it acceptable to package up their goods in cardboard, clear plastic and plastic ties. In some cases I've seen those plastic ties actually screwed into the packaging. Of course, the only way for consumers to send a message to manufacturers is to stop buying them, but shop big companies be that deaf to their customers?
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I couldn't agree more. It's obscene the amount of packaging for products that don't even require padding or protection against breakage. Buy a computer cord and you've got to get a razor blade to get it out of thick, hardened plastic and cardboard. There's no point!
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It wouldn't be so bad if you could recycle the packaging afterwards, but most schemes wont take the plastic.
Next thing we'll know is that they are packaging books in plastic cases so we can't flick through them in the shops.
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