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The grams of waste per teaspoon of ketchup seems high.

What else has a super high packaging waste per consumable volume?

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[–] EyesEyesBaby@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Anything sold single dose.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

You could pretty easily argue they're among the least wasteful things made, regardless of how much packaging they come in

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

Condoms prevent kids though, and those produce metric fucktons of waste

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Not something I'd want to be re-usable.