After opening many a presents this holiday season, a lot of which were toys, I noticed how horribly wasteful the packaging was. So, I am composing a letter to the manufactures of products to cut back on the amount of material used to package an item.
Dear Manufactures,
In recent years it has become quite popular to live a "green" lifestyle. A good amount of companies are embracing this fact and capitalizing on our weakness to be more kind to our Mother Earth. With that being said I am now going to pose a few rhetorical questions to illustrate what I really want to say.
- Charmin, do you really need to wrap the toilet paper in two plastic packages inside one plastic package?
- Fisher-Price, does all your toys need to be a mini-replica of Fort Knox, with all the tape, and cardboard, and twist ties?
- To the makers of Pledge All in One Surface cleaner, could you please make your bottles "openable" so I can reuse them?
- Companies who use blister pack, PLEASE STOP ALL TOGETHER!! THEY SUCK AND I ALWAYS GET HURT TRYING TO OPEN THEM!!! Use a cardboard box!
- What ever happen to paper shopping bags?.....WALMART??? HMMMMM.......
I feel like a throw away more packaging each and every year and I would like to say it is because I am able to buy more stuff. Not the case, in fact a recent publication noted that "the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, 2006) found that only approximately 31% of the municipal solid wastes generated in 2005 was from packaging-related materials..." Holy crap, that's a lot of crap!!
So, please be more mindful of convince and impact to the environment!
Happy New Year,
Gina L. Brown
Consumer
