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So often, there is so much unnecessary packaging, box in the box, in the bag in the bag in the box, I wouldn't mind if a product or food is packaged much simple

So often, there is so much unnecessary packaging, box in the box, in the bag in the bag in the box, I wouldn't mind if a product or food is packaged much simpler

simonblack 3y ago
I wouldn't mind if a product or food is packaged much simpler I'm ancient enough to remember that when you took your grocery list to the grocery shop, there weren't many shelves that had packets of whatever for sale. Mainly the store had a whole series of large bins: one for flour, one for sugar, another for salt, etc. You read out the list and the man would scoop up what you had ordered and put in into a brown-paper bag. In today's world, that business-model is too labor-intensive. Better that you buy a standardised amount of product that a machine can measure out more cheaply and more speedily than any man can. But that product now has to travel the country instead of just back to your place, so it needs more robust packaging, and that packaging needs to be labelled clearly so you know what you are buying. That entails an inner plastic, sealable bag, and a firm cardboard printed outer packaging. Progress? Perhaps.
- SSLy 3y ago
  Flour and sugar is sold in paper bags...
  - ssl-3 3y ago
    And both salt and baking powder are normally sold in cardboard tubes -- not plastic. But these numerous little exceptions don't invalidate OP's observation, wherein: Our needs have broadly changed, and thus so has our packaging.
  - shiroiushi 3y ago
    Most sugar I see sold (and probably flour too) is sold in plastic bags, not paper. You can probably find the really huge sizes in paper, but the smaller sizes that most people want (because of convenience, they don't want to buy a decade's worth of sugar at one time) are usually in plastic.
  - Sabinus 3y ago
    The paper is probably lined with plastic to keep moisture out.
    - gruez 3y ago
      At least for flour and white granulated sugar it looks exactly like uncoated paper.
    - petre 3y ago
      It can be waxed paper, accomplishes the same purpose. I have an issue with disposable plastic food containers. So obnoxious. Some processed food has more packaging than actual food. Like plastic sushi boxes with the stupid plastic grass between the pieces. A recent plastic bottle and aluminium can tax was introduced in my country, thanx to the EU, which has led me to change my behaviour from avoid to avoid at all costs. Scientists found microplastics in clogged arteries. Soon we won't have just high cholesterol, but also "high plastics" in our bloodstream, as if plthalates that were linked to high cholesterol were not enough.
- maximus-decimus 3y ago
  So everything was like Bulk Barn? That would definitely get us rid of shrinkflation.
scrubs 3y ago
Example lennywich for dine in order of 1 burger and 1 hardboiled egg: Egg in plastic container with lid Burger wrapped in 3 layers of paper and one layer of foil Above put into plastic bag with napkins 20 mins later all in trash all of which happens 10ft from cashier. Crazy bad

So often, there is so much unnecessary packaging, box in the box, in the bag in the bag in the box, I wouldn't mind if a product or food is packaged much simpler

simonblack 3y ago

I wouldn't mind if a product or food is packaged much simpler I'm ancient enough to remember that when you took your grocery list to the grocery shop, there weren't many shelves that had packets of whatever for sale. Mainly the store had a whole series of large bins: one for flour, one for sugar, another for salt, etc. You read out the list and the man would scoop up what you had ordered and put in into a brown-paper bag. In today's world, that business-model is too labor-intensive. Better that you buy a standardised amount of product that a machine can measure out more cheaply and more speedily than any man can. But that product now has to travel the country instead of just back to your place, so it needs more robust packaging, and that packaging needs to be labelled clearly so you know what you are buying. That entails an inner plastic, sealable bag, and a firm cardboard printed outer packaging. Progress? Perhaps.

SSLy 3y ago
Flour and sugar is sold in paper bags...
- ssl-3 3y ago
  And both salt and baking powder are normally sold in cardboard tubes -- not plastic. But these numerous little exceptions don't invalidate OP's observation, wherein: Our needs have broadly changed, and thus so has our packaging.
- shiroiushi 3y ago
  Most sugar I see sold (and probably flour too) is sold in plastic bags, not paper. You can probably find the really huge sizes in paper, but the smaller sizes that most people want (because of convenience, they don't want to buy a decade's worth of sugar at one time) are usually in plastic.
- Sabinus 3y ago
  The paper is probably lined with plastic to keep moisture out.
  - gruez 3y ago
    At least for flour and white granulated sugar it looks exactly like uncoated paper.
  - petre 3y ago
    It can be waxed paper, accomplishes the same purpose. I have an issue with disposable plastic food containers. So obnoxious. Some processed food has more packaging than actual food. Like plastic sushi boxes with the stupid plastic grass between the pieces. A recent plastic bottle and aluminium can tax was introduced in my country, thanx to the EU, which has led me to change my behaviour from avoid to avoid at all costs. Scientists found microplastics in clogged arteries. Soon we won't have just high cholesterol, but also "high plastics" in our bloodstream, as if plthalates that were linked to high cholesterol were not enough.
maximus-decimus 3y ago
So everything was like Bulk Barn? That would definitely get us rid of shrinkflation.

scrubs 3y ago

Example lennywich for dine in order of 1 burger and 1 hardboiled egg: Egg in plastic container with lid Burger wrapped in 3 layers of paper and one layer of foil Above put into plastic bag with napkins 20 mins later all in trash all of which happens 10ft from cashier. Crazy bad