Until our various levels of government start to work together on reducing our
packaging and hence our garbage, do your best to avoid the following examples
of environmentally-unfriendly product wrappings.
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JUICE BOXES
Those little boxes full of everything from apple juice to soya milk that you
see in vast numbers on supermarket shelves. They can neither be reused or
recycled because they have an outer layer of plastic, a middle layer of
cardboard, and an inner layer of aluminum foil.
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BLISTER PACKAGES
These cardboard-backed packages with a plastic bubble on the front to hold
the product to let you see the product. Again, however, the different materials
can't be separated efficiently for recycling, and so becomes general garbage.
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INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED SNACKS
A package of cookies that has each cookie separately wrapped may seem
"hygenic" at first glance, but is the second wrapping truly
necessary? And do
we need individually wrapped restaurant portions of butter, salt, sugar,
pepper, ketchup and other condiments?
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SINGLE-SERVING MICROWAVEABLES
Here too the layers of packaging are excessive. We could easily buy a larger
package, take out the appropriate serving size, and heat or cook it on a plate
or a pan.
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POLYSTYRENE FOAM EGG CARTONS
The issue here isn't so much one of reducing packaging as it is replacing a
harmful package with a benign one. Cardboard egg cartons can be made from
recycled paper, which saves resources. The foam packages can contain and are
made with CFC's, which is harmful to the ozone layer.
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