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The amount of solid waste I generate daily is amazing. Most of it is from single use consumer product packaging. There should be a standardized consumer contain
by joshuaheard 5y ago
The amount of solid waste I generate daily is amazing. Most of it is from single use consumer product packaging. There should be a standardized consumer container to deliver goods, sort of a shipping container for consumers. The consumer container could be cleaned and reused, or the container destroyed and the material recycled, or the material could be biodegradable.
- picture 5y agoThat's a great prompt for some fun industrial design especially for liquids - meeting criteria of being strong, packable, easily cleaned, easy to pour, etc. Fun!
- jacobolus 5y agoEvery kind of packaging should be from some (very clearly visually distinguishable, e.g. with a mandated specific color) single recyclable/compostable material. No more mixed-material packages of (non-biodegradable) plastic film stuck to cardboard. No more one-off specialty plastics for packaging. No more wrapping sheets of plastic around everything. No more Mylar. No more plastic single-piece candy wrappers. No more loads of plastic tape everywhere. A lot more cardboard / waxed paper food packaging. Etc. And vendors should pay whatever the full lifecycle of their products/packaging costs. It should be possible for every consumer to easily clean and sort their waste into a relatively small number of bins, or for a recycling sorting center to easily sort mixed-stream waste into the appropriate homogeneous categories. Everything that can’t be easily sorted should be required to be biodegradable.
- fckthisguy 5y agoI'm amazed more people don't push this. Germany's bottle laws (weaker now than they once were) was a clear step in the right direction. I'd love to see something similar for everything I consume.