Fantastic pictures of massively excessive packaging used in shipping IT products around. Make sure you watch the video! (Martin)
Aboxalypse now It is with heavy hearts that we today report that HP has shattered its own excessive packaging world record – set last year when it managed to expend 17 cardboard boxes in dispatching 32 sheets [...]
I wandered into the lounge last night to see a journalist touting around a big blue wheelie bin of plastic packaging waste. Didn’t spot the name of the programme. I only had ten minutes to watch before going out to band rehearsal, but it seemed actually quite a balanced piece. Yes, there’s waste, but yes, [...]
The story is criticising a company for packaging five lemons on a tray, without asking why a company might do such an expensive thing. Couldn’t be a case of reducing food waste, could it?
March 2, 2009
COLES has been give an award for environmentally damaging and useless packaging.
It has “won” the Environment Victoria’s DUMP award, [...]
