Excessive packaging is such a waste

Back in the 90s there used to be a shop called The Food Weighouse in my town; I think there are still a couple of these shops about the North East but unfortunately the one in my town closed down. I liked this shop because you used very little packaging, instead you had bags that put your washing powder, sweets, nuts, etc in and it was usually a fraction of the cost.

Yes you are right but at the other hand most of the packaging material can be recycled and -people are used to do so. The same thing is applied for Remanufactured Ink Cartridges they are really very useful for go green program. It is also profitable in terms of money as well.

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With peoples thoughts on excessive packaging, here,s a thought of my own .Everyone shops a least once a week at a familer large shop,supermarkets. My thought is as we buy our products from these shops and all the packaging that we take home is supplied by them, why can they not take their !!!!! excess packaging back the following week when we return to stock up our cupboards.This would help all supermarkets/manufactors to focus on the amount of packaging that we get around our food and pay for in the price,to again pay extra possible as our councils take it away for us which we have all ready paid for in our local taxes.

Fortuntely,Most packaging can be recycled.Paper can.metal can,and if you Look at plastic It often has a triangle with a number in the middle.It pains me that when I open the bin area of my apartment block,I see all of the above things dumped in there.It"s not so much manufacturers and retailers to blame for Land-fill abuse,It"s us the consumer.

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I prefer to buy items in massive packaging so they don't get damaged. I liked it when computer games came on on small disks and were in big boxes. The graphics were good. I think greetings cards should come in their own cardboard boxes cos if you buy one there's a risk of it getting bent before you get it home, so a cardboard box would prevent this.

When I buy a plant in Homebase I get the tiller to wrap it in about 8 big bags plus some foam packaging and then have it all put in a cardboard box.

At the supermarket I want cereals to come in double size packs with half the content, and canned soup is often dented so better to manufacture individual boxes for each can. I miss those big boxes TVs used to come in cos now everything is flat screen.

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I agree! I also wish these computer printer companies would make the ink cheaper, so people don't just throw out the printer when it runs out of ink...guess they think, Gee a new printer cartridge cost almost as much as the whole printer on sale..land fields are full of them.
The computer hardware companies should take them back and they can recycle them for to the consumer and he green world.

In the old days parents used to spend the last hours of Christmas Eve putting toys together. Now they need to spend this time unpacking stuff instead! This will save all the impatient tantrums on the Day!

I do find the current levels of packaging ridiculous too and totally agree with the gripe. I have heard of people who unpack stuff at the supermarket and put the rubbish in their bins, but it must take nerve!

Actually it is the rise of supermarket shopping which has brought this problem about as far as food goes. When you went to the corner shop for half a pound of biscuits the shopkeeper took them out of a big tin & put them in a paper bag for you. Nobody would want to buy biscuits from Tesco that were not pre-packed as you wouldn't know who else had been handling them, so packaged they must be! The same goes for all sorts of goods which used to be bought "loose".

As far as alot of other things go, ease of display in the shop is to blame for some of it. Things need to be stacked on shelves or hung on racks so must be boxed or put on a card with a plastic bubble. With the case of things like memory cards I suppose the large piece of card does make them much harder to slip into a pocket!

The whole thing really comes down to fewer shop staff and more self-service.

I dread xmas day when you want to relax, but you have a mountain of kids toys to unwrap from the packaging, the twist ties that hold the toy to the card packaging, and then sellotaped on the back with the strongest tape in the universe, with about a hundred of them for every toy, and you have to do it carefully or the toy gets damadged, not to mention all the boxes, inner boxes, then a trip out to the wheelie bins to sort it correctly, climbing on top to squash it all down, we never had this in the 1960s, how about one on display like this, and the rest in more simpler packaging, instead of them all being packaged as if it is the only one in the shop.