So, I've recently ended up buying some teabags from a new brand. Great news in itself but that's for another time, what I'm more writing about is that when I opened up the outter plastic wrapping, I was greeted by about 4 stacks of teabags in rows of about 10, all wrapped in more plastic. The last time I bothered throwing my groceries out of the window, I figured teabags were one of those items which faired better when they met my neighbours wall, so what's with the extra plastic? Surely it affects the companies profit when they're paying for something as useless as this? And then the environment... [insert generic arguement regarding landfills and ineffective recycling here], so Auntie Earth gets her teeth kicked in while I enjoy my morning caffine doseage.
I'll expand this for a while considering it's become commonplace in my area or at least the nearby supermarket in products suchas; these chocolate covered sticks I sometimes buy to shut my friend up for 5 glorious minutes end you'd think a single wrapping of plastic (You know, like all other brands of chocolate) would do the job... Well no, infact, it's been decided these things are sprinkled with the dust of faeries in the factory of happiness and smiles valley which owes to the giant carboard box 12X the size of the main item.
A new remote I bought came in 4 parts and 4X as much packaging, shirts I've bought for work end up with around seven layers of paper inside it for no reason and something around the collar, a type of razor I bought came in no less than three types of material and probably enough layers of said material to build a crude razor for when that one breaks down. Even cereal boxes didn't justify themselves when the plastic wrapping in the box (Meant to keep the wheaty-goodness fresh for my groggy state the next day) doesn't do it's job and close or fold up to keep it from going stale.
And for the summary, I should presumably include than no I am not an environment nut, I don't intend tommorow to eat a host of nuts and berries I scavenged from soil today, nor do I want to jump a ship at sea to club a fisherman to death. My point being is that I do not understand simply the reasoning behind this waste of money, when these companies complain of poor annual turnovers in profit and may be forced to make redundant longtime workers because of their own inept cost effective packaging... and lack of common sense.
So, does anyone have an answer? Protecting a product is one thing, but most of the products are food or are resiliant from being knocked about by the plump guy driving them from factory to store.
Would you do anything differently? Recommend a fix? Do you not give two about anything what I just wrote?
I'll expand this for a while considering it's become commonplace in my area or at least the nearby supermarket in products suchas; these chocolate covered sticks I sometimes buy to shut my friend up for 5 glorious minutes end you'd think a single wrapping of plastic (You know, like all other brands of chocolate) would do the job... Well no, infact, it's been decided these things are sprinkled with the dust of faeries in the factory of happiness and smiles valley which owes to the giant carboard box 12X the size of the main item.
A new remote I bought came in 4 parts and 4X as much packaging, shirts I've bought for work end up with around seven layers of paper inside it for no reason and something around the collar, a type of razor I bought came in no less than three types of material and probably enough layers of said material to build a crude razor for when that one breaks down. Even cereal boxes didn't justify themselves when the plastic wrapping in the box (Meant to keep the wheaty-goodness fresh for my groggy state the next day) doesn't do it's job and close or fold up to keep it from going stale.
And for the summary, I should presumably include than no I am not an environment nut, I don't intend tommorow to eat a host of nuts and berries I scavenged from soil today, nor do I want to jump a ship at sea to club a fisherman to death. My point being is that I do not understand simply the reasoning behind this waste of money, when these companies complain of poor annual turnovers in profit and may be forced to make redundant longtime workers because of their own inept cost effective packaging... and lack of common sense.
So, does anyone have an answer? Protecting a product is one thing, but most of the products are food or are resiliant from being knocked about by the plump guy driving them from factory to store.
Would you do anything differently? Recommend a fix? Do you not give two about anything what I just wrote?
