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I hope this also means the end of shitty, wasteful blister/clamshell packaging. It's about time we use materials that decompose, occupy less volume, and don't d

I hope this also means the end of shitty, wasteful blister/clamshell packaging. It's about time we use materials that decompose, occupy less volume, and don't damage my hands when opening them.

djsumdog 9y ago
Now we get everything is a huge, wasteful, cardboard box. My flatmate recently ordered sponges from Amazon. A fucking cardboard box for something that you could buy at Wal-Greens for the same price, and where hundreds of them are shipped per box.
- brndnmtthws 9y ago
  At least cardboard decomposes, whereas plastic remains in a landfill for eternity.
  - twobyfour 9y ago
    Those clamshells are now recyclable. Do you not recycle your cardboard? BTW, landfills aren't great environments for decomposition even for paper and cardboard - the weight and compression make for a hostile environment for aerobic microbes and for the larger animals (rodents, insects, worms) that usually help with the first round of decomposition and increasing the surface area available to the microbes. If you dig into a landfill, you can often find 75-year-old newspapers (made of some of the least durable materials around) completely intact. Mid-to-late 20thC landfills are the worst of all because there's so much plastic and styrofoam, the ratio of decomposable materials is very low.
    - bunderbunder 9y ago
      I don't know that that's really so bad. If we don't want that stuff for any particular reason, then I'd rather its carbon also stay underground rather than being converted into carbon dioxide and released back into the atmosphere.
- raisedbyninjas 9y ago
  Waste is waste but at least cardboard is sourced from renewable tree farms and when it's dumped in a landfill it is sequestering carbon.
  - graphitezepp 9y ago
    People worrying about paper waste has become a pet peeve of mine. Get your plastic use down first please.
lakechfoma 9y ago
I haven't opened one of those in literal years. I've been buying most durable goods online and probably anything that historically would have come in one of those demons now comes in easy to open/recycle boxes from Amazon.

I hope this also means the end of shitty, wasteful blister/clamshell packaging. It's about time we use materials that decompose, occupy less volume, and don't damage my hands when opening them.

djsumdog 9y ago

Now we get everything is a huge, wasteful, cardboard box. My flatmate recently ordered sponges from Amazon. A fucking cardboard box for something that you could buy at Wal-Greens for the same price, and where hundreds of them are shipped per box.

brndnmtthws 9y ago
At least cardboard decomposes, whereas plastic remains in a landfill for eternity.
- twobyfour 9y ago
  Those clamshells are now recyclable. Do you not recycle your cardboard? BTW, landfills aren't great environments for decomposition even for paper and cardboard - the weight and compression make for a hostile environment for aerobic microbes and for the larger animals (rodents, insects, worms) that usually help with the first round of decomposition and increasing the surface area available to the microbes. If you dig into a landfill, you can often find 75-year-old newspapers (made of some of the least durable materials around) completely intact. Mid-to-late 20thC landfills are the worst of all because there's so much plastic and styrofoam, the ratio of decomposable materials is very low.
  - bunderbunder 9y ago
    I don't know that that's really so bad. If we don't want that stuff for any particular reason, then I'd rather its carbon also stay underground rather than being converted into carbon dioxide and released back into the atmosphere.
raisedbyninjas 9y ago
Waste is waste but at least cardboard is sourced from renewable tree farms and when it's dumped in a landfill it is sequestering carbon.
- graphitezepp 9y ago
  People worrying about paper waste has become a pet peeve of mine. Get your plastic use down first please.

lakechfoma 9y ago

I haven't opened one of those in literal years. I've been buying most durable goods online and probably anything that historically would have come in one of those demons now comes in easy to open/recycle boxes from Amazon.