From experiences traveling I would also guess the packaging to content ratio is a lot worse in low income countries. Southeast Asia is littered with small shops

From experiences traveling I would also guess the packaging to content ratio is a lot worse in low income countries. Southeast Asia is littered with small shops selling snacks, and they mostly come in very small packages to be affordable (for a typical example see [1]). In Indonesia "gelas" (glass) is a popular packaging for drinking water, a yogurt cup like clear plastic packaging that contains just 220 ml water. It's empty after a few minutes, and the beaches and rivers are full of empty cups. [1] https://www.alamy.com/portrait-of-a-man-amid-his-goods-in-a-small-shop-cemoro-lawan-indonesia-image65418252.html https://www.alamy.com/portrait-of-a-man-amid-his-goods-in-a-...