The Noveau Overpackaging

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What is going on with all this stuff being put into "new" plastic containers? Things that have always been fine in bags somehow need the protection of a hard plastic shell - Dorito's, for instance. What has changed? Is this bothering anybody else?

Meanwhile, a floating island of plastic the size of Texas is taking over the Pacific Ocean:

http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Moore-Trashed-PacificNov03.htm

― andy, Monday, 1 March 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago) link

Lay's + stack-pak = Pringle's!

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link

those things are reusable. I've got lots of stuff stored in things like that. mini m&m containers are good for quarters.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:17 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, but I'm sure most people don't reuse them. Plastic packaging like that just seems really wasteful and unnecessary to me.

― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

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Tic Tac - The ORIGINAl overpackaging! Sea birds think they're minty-fresh jellyfish!

― andy, Monday, 1 March 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

And why can't you get your videos or cds out of that cellophane wrapping? What's up with that?

― omg, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 03:31 (twenty years ago) link

People are paranoid about tampering - food n drugs being tampered with by terrorists or whatever - thus the excessive packaging to prove safety and cleanliness. Plus for things like CDs, its the prevention of theft thing I'm guessing - plastic then alarm stickers then more plastic (and that outer layer of tough cellophane is a bitch to get off - I've cut my hand open badly on that shit).

Its horrible, and wasteful, and that link andy put above about all the trash in the ocean depressed me no end.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:02 (twenty years ago) link

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