Yesterday I was opening up yet another Amazon white bubble wrap envelope when I took a closer look at the recycling logo. “Please remove paper label before rec

Yesterday I was opening up yet another Amazon white bubble wrap envelope when I took a closer look at the recycling logo. “Please remove paper label before recycling.” Mind somewhat blown. How often do you think that actually happens? But also, really shows you how hard this stuff is to process. Of course peeling off the label is nearly impossible. I wish after tearing the perforation off, there was another flap in there waiting to be deployed to cleanly reuse the envelope (versus the tape monster which you end up with if you try to reuse it by folding it over on itself). And then another row of perforation. And another flap. All the way from 8.5x11 or so, down to 8.5x5. Some of the clothes mailers I get are designed like this, with an inner flap and adhesive strip designed for sending back what didn’t fit. Would that be worth it in the end at scale? I for one would definitely save the bubble envelopes if they were cleaner to reuse. But then that label would also have to peel off easier too (different type of adhesive).