No bueno

i have recently become very aware of and disgusted by the the amount of plastic waste i make.

every single goddammed thing is covered in it. it's obscene and i am ashamed.

Order literally anything from china. Each part in a Ziploc, then grouped in a Ziploc, in a box with bubble or balloon wrap, and/or styrofoam, then like 8 miles of yellow packing tape so you have no idea where to open from, and maybe another box or garbage bag layer with more tape, then the packing slip sleeve and more tape over that.

What did we package things in before disposable plastic became ubiquitous? I don't think I was alive then. Or did we just have a lot less small and single serving products?

It also has alot of palm-oil in it so it is another reason to avoid it.

Just eat it! What a waste! I mean, the stuff inside isn’t much better to be honest.

Support your local baker and chocolate shop instead, big corporations aren't your friend but your local small business owner could be

Not good

I bought one of these a couple weeks ago to try and I haven't wanted to buy another because of this. Which is a shame. They were delicious.

I bought refillers for ball pen to "reduce plastic" and its packing has plastic equivalent of an entire new pen

Man, you should see the Gansito packaging. Think about the Twinkie 2ct packaging where its wrapped in plastic with a cardboard tray to give it support. Thats fine. But Gansito goes an extra step. The whole package is wrapped in a foil bag. Inside it has a plastic tray, in which the individual cakes are wrapped in plastic. All this plastic for whats essentially 4 big bites of cake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e2gKAfuswY

At least cellophane is plant based and will bio degrade

Whenever I'm hating myself for my single use weaknesses, I picture a nurse doing one blood test or bandage... In every room.... In every hospital... Everywhere.. and that's just healthcare which we give a pass for obvious reasons. If you want to project your self-hate onto others instead of using the exercise to chill out and be kind to yourself, you can even think of other industries like how much shit is coming out of some gun or Budweiser factory somewhere 🤷

I'm curious how much plastic it actually is, if you say, melted it into a bead. It's hard to tell just by looking at a bunch of torn-up wrappers.

I ordered a lens filter for my camera, and couldn't believe the amount of packaging and plastic wrapping it came with. It was absurd to the point of lunacy. We're talking several boxes, something like four or five different plastic wrappers, etc. For a lens filter!

It's almost like manufacturers are aware that consumers aren't "allowed" to use single-use plastic when getting groceries, so they double-down on their use for everything else!

I ordered a load of network patch cables recently. They all came packaged individually in sealed plastic bags.

We haven't been able to find a Walmart Pickup location that doesn't use way too many plastic grocery bags, so we finally got around to buying and using reusable bags, and it's so much better! I can actually bring in the groceries in one trip now. I'm never going back. IDK why the shoppers at Walmart insist on putting only 1 or 2 items in each plastic bag. I understand keeping some items separate for food safety, but this is ridiculous! I used to live close to my grandma who crochets plastic grocery bags into sleeping pads for unhoused folks, but we moved away from her and have no use for 20-30 plastic bags a week.