The following suggestion will reduce recycling by 25 to 40 percent. It involves a process during manufacturing that would be simple to implement. It wouldn’t require companies to alter their mode of packaging and distribution, only a slight adjustment to the process would be needed.
So, what is this undemanding, effortless solution to reduce waste? Fill everything up!
Ever bought a box of soap to find it is filled not only with the soap crystals you aimed to purchase, but a handy cup and two to three inches of air? How about a package of potato chips, a third of which offers the aromatic essence of the product you hope to consume? Or a bottle of pain killers or vitamins two thirds full but equipped with a healthy dose of cotton batten? The above are rhetorical questions.
It’s time for the consumer to be fed up with packaging that is not filled up. The environmental impact, if implemented for many of the products we buy, would be enormous around the world. Fill existing containers up or reduce their size and fill them up. The time for responsible packaging is here.
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