Packaging

Okay this may seem a bit random, but it annoyed me so STRAP IN KIDS.

I ordered a dead sea mud face mask and some silicon mask brushes on Amazon. Two small items. From the same place. To arrive on the same day. So, in my head, I thought that they would arrive both in the same medium sized box or in two smaller packages.

But NO.

Instead I get a large box and a large plastic envelope. The face mask took up a small corner of the box and was in its own packaging. The brushes took up about an eighth of the envelope.

See down in the bottom left hand corner? That's what I bought. The rest of the photo is PACKAGING.

Granted, Most of that can be recycled. But recycling isn't always the solution. Things can be "theoretically recyclable" (Prospect magazine) but whether or not it actually goes through the recycling depends on how big or small the object is. For example, shredded paper can't be recycled because it falls through the machine. It can be recycled as long as there is somewhere to sort it and someone to buy it. If one or both of those things don't exist in your area, it gets chucked in the landfill with everything else. Which is the one thing recycling is trying to avoid.

Recycling isn't always going to help the situation. We need to cut down on packaging, otherwise items like this that aren't bought up will be discarded into landfill, putting this planet in a worse situation every day. And that's just sad.