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The entire packaging industry is ridiculous. For example: Why do garbage bags come in boxes or bags when they could be stored inside a garbage bag that's folde
by astrodust 8y ago
The entire packaging industry is ridiculous.
For example: Why do garbage bags come in boxes or bags when they could be stored inside a garbage bag that's folded up properly to contain them?
- gfosco 8y agoMarketing and shelf space reasons.
- ascorbic 8y agoI'm confused. Don't they come on rolls? The most packaging I've known for garbage bags is a paper label holding the roll together.
- macintux 8y agoNot around here. They're in rolls, but boxed.
- sirmarksalot 8y agoThat seems like a very small efficiency gain. At one bag per week, a single, recyclable cardboard box of 45 garbage bags will last you just under a year. Each box folds down to about one legal-size manilla envelope. I'm personally okay with wasting one manilla envelope per year.
- astrodust 8y agoIt's an example of how the product could be the packaging. You, personally, use one box per year. Cleaning companies go through a lot more. Even if it's just one box per year, it's one box that doesn't need to exist, the bag itself is more than adequate. That and the bag company has to buy boxes for no reason other than a lack of awareness on their own part.
- toomanybeersies 8y agoWhenever I by garbage bags, they come in a roll. The only packaging they have is a sticker for the barcode and sometimes a couple of rubber bands to keep them nicely rolled up.
- astrodust 8y agoI wish they sold them here like that. Instead they come in boxes for reasons I cannot explain.
- neuralRiot 8y agoA big part of the problem is consumer education, we're lazy by nature and marketing takes advantage of that, i've seen 3 peeled nectarines on a foil wrapped foam tray or tuna in metallized plastic pouches or srink-wrapped cucumbers or potatoes, my coworker bring his lunch on a foam tray everyday together with plastic fork and knife these are after discarded so he doesn't have to wash anything.