Good editorial on the waste and harm from the glut of packaging for online purchases. My husband would certainly agree as I get the evil eye every time UPS shows up. He gets stuck with breaking down the boxes and popping the large plastic bubble wrap. The bubble wrap alone unpopped would fill up the barrel.
It’s really crazy with all the unnecessary material in shipping. We all have experienced this. The item may be sent in a box 20 times the size needed, requiring an enormous amount of bubble wrap or paper filler. Your 10 items may be shipped in three shipments on different dates. I once received cotton balls wrapped in bubble wrap in a box by themselves! It’s wasteful, harmful to the environment, expensive and irritating to the consumer.
However, the genie is out of the bottle for the benefits of online shopping — savings, convenience, gas, travel time, and free shipping and easy returns.
Maybe cardboard boxes need to have a significant enough deposit on them paid by the retailer and consumer to be an incentive for both to minimize packaging and to return clean cardboard to a recycle station for a deposit refund. The retailer then would be required to only buy boxes made from recycled cardboard. Just an idea. Remember we pay a fee on aluminum cans and plastic bottles and we tend to recycle them for the money. Money talks.
— Linda Cheffet, Oroville
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