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That would be extremely wasteful. That packaging is there for a reason; it prevents items from getting damaged. If you remove the packaging from 1000 items and
by jimrandomh 8y ago
That would be extremely wasteful. That packaging is there for a reason; it prevents items from getting damaged. If you remove the packaging from 1000 items and one of them breaks, you've wasted a lot of resources on net, because most packaging is very cheap compared to the items inside.
- schiffern 8y ago>most packaging is very cheap ...in part because the manufacturer doesn't pay the cost of plastic pollution, or leached persistent organotoxins, or microplastics. Is the solution as simple as a tax on all plastics (funding ocean/land cleanup of existing pollution), plus a universal per-item deposit to ensure that future plastics get separated correctly and returned?