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In reply to the discussion: I'm getting sick and tired of business packing everything in plastic [View all]Scrivener7
(51,192 posts)12. To come at it from another direction, what ISN'T packed in plastic?
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I'm getting sick and tired of business packing everything in plastic [View all]
Stargazer99
May 2023
OP
The fact that I am old ito remember things being sold without plastic wrapped around
Stargazer99
May 2023
#7
Butcher paper is still around, some for the same uses as always, some less noticable
JHB
May 2023
#82
Your comment that we are on the edge of ruining our last remaining forests for toilet paper made me
Jack the Greater
May 2023
#48
Amazon (yes I know) has made some attempts for recyclable and "frustration free" packaging.
forgotmylogin
May 2023
#49
I have a box of Quaker oats (old fashioned not the quick) and it's in that familiar tube box
MichaelSoE
May 2023
#79
I remember my grandmother ran a small dress shop in a tiny farm town and wrapped
hlthe2b
May 2023
#3
Then maybe it is time we produce in the US and stop pushing the profit value only
Stargazer99
May 2023
#9
Good reminder. My aunt cursed the Tylenol killer as she tried to open child-proof pill bottles ...
Hekate
May 2023
#15
I agree with you. Sometimes things are wrapped in 3 levels of plastic, not just one. Too much.
demigoddess
May 2023
#16
Often plastic is used to avoid shop damage, e.g. brain dead customers opening cardboard boxes
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2023
#29
Yes! I've said that so often! There is nothing that's not wrapped in plastic!
Rhiannon12866
May 2023
#37
Well, I'm hardly a champion for Wall Street greed lizards, and generally agree with you
PatrickforB
May 2023
#42
I've started doing takeout only from places that offer the old Chinese food paper cartons or
Scrivener7
May 2023
#58