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Designing the Packaging-Free Future
- jckt 14y agoWas just thinking about this today, what a coincidence. I think the real question is how to deliver store-bought items more effectively to your home. For example, instead of teabags there's already loose-leaf tea, but most people can't be bothered to mess with getting the right volume of tea leaves and then steeping it etc. How do we make this easier, such that it would be actually welcomed? And how do we make such delivery systems work in general, for other products -- I already felt bad throwing away (recycled!) my milk jugs today. All that unnecessary energy used (wasted) in transporting waste products, even if it's recycled. Less packaging is welcome but it doesn't really solve the underlying problem of a better delivery system.
- Centigonal 14y agoIsn't this, in the case of the soap, detergent, and containers just shifting the burden of dealing with packaging from waste management companies to the water system? I hope I'm not being too much of a killjoy by bringing this concern in, because the products are, frankly, really beautifully designed, and eliminate a lot of packaging mass right off the bat.