Could changing product packaging save the Earth? 23 Articles

by B. B. James

Product packaging is not ruining the Earth, so changing it can't fix our environmental, social, nor political problems. However, better packaging can be part of the solution - and great strides have been made already. P...read more

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by Madison

If all the garbage you have ever thrown out was put in one place how many football fields would it fill? America is drowning in garbage. Our products are over packaged in non-natural materials and we are polluting our lan...read more

by WordVixen

While there is no one thing that can be done to save the earth, there are things that we can do to make improvements and prevent more damage. One of those is changing the way we package our products. By using recyclabl...read more

by Asahatter

Changing product packaging will not save the Earth. But it will help. I am always annoyed when I visit my local Supermarket (something I do less and less often now - it reduces my opportunities to be annoyed) to see prod...read more

by William Prest

Not long ago on a planet not too far away, things were far different than they are in the industrialized world here today. People on that planet made do without plastic, aluminum foil and disposable paper cups. Instead the...read more

by Daniel Sisk

Food wrappers, aluminum cans, bottles, transmissions, dashboards, tires, clothes, stereo innards, magazines where the wrinkled and soggy super models didn't look so super anymore. And lots of beer cans. One sunny Satu...read more

by hatsrus

Could changing product packaging save the Earth? Excess packaging has now become ludicrous. Mnay canned sardines also have a cardboard box and then cellophane film over the box which is surely over-packaging, since the ...read more

by Phillip Ellis

If I pushed this pineapple up your bum 'luv' then you would know exactly why it needs cellophane! The traditional tin can was invented specifically for Napoleons army, but the tin-opener didn't come about for another 6...read more

by Ginger Kazay

Could changing product packaging save the Earth; not all by itself. All of the problems with our environment are NOT caused by product packaging. Burning fossil fuels, illegal dumping of toxic chemicals, and a lot of...read more

by David Riel

Product packaging can't save the Earth, because the biggest threats to the Earth have nothing to do with overflowing landfills. In fact, product packaging is a relatively trivial consideration in the scheme of things,...read more

by Jobie Weetaluktuk

Did you know that the packaging on the mini iPod is bigger in surface that the electronic gem itself? Packaging certainly takes a lot of volume in shipping, trucking, and storing. It also takes a lot of room in the recyc...read more

by Anonomous User1

Absolutely, but the product packaging we need to change is that of the environmental movement. What the heck do I mean by this? I mean we have to repackage the efforts of green-minded politics to make it clear that they ar...read more

by Aldo Bonincontro

To save the Earth from an environmental disaster, the change and reduction of products packaging is by far not enough alone, but it can give its contribution, if associated with other interventions to reduce the amount of ...read more

by BuildWith

Everyone thinks in terms of today, and this is the major problem which causes law makers and environmentalists to make the wrong decisions. Sometimes we find a supposed solution and then two years later as the law suits ro...read more

by Jon Coe

It is nice to know that a company has taken great care in packaging your brand new television so that if you dropped it out of your bed room window, it wouldn't break! However, the thing that I hate the most is the da...read more

by The Hitchhiker

I was surprised (and pleased) to read this morning, in last week's edition of "The Economist" (March 31st 2007), that San Francisco has banned polyethylene bags. And about time too - they get caught in trees, are a danger...read more

by D. J. Poe

Changing product packaging could HELP save the earth, i.e. our environment. I remember the days when hamburger was packaged in paper. This could be easily recycled or destroyed. Plastics and other non-perishable containers...read more

by C Davison

There is one way that changing product packaging will save this planet. We have to change the entire package. Earth that is. As a whole, we have to stop thinking about the Earth as a whole bunch of little places, and in...read more

by Jarinia Heuze

I have come across various innovative "green" products during events to raise environmental awareness. I was impressed by the advancement of such technology, as coconut fibres and tapioca starch turned into biodegradable a...read more

by Brian Smith

It seems cliche these days to talk about saving the Earth, but changing product packaging may well do it. But not how you think. Let's face it, there are far more dangerous effects on the Earth than excess packaging, and...read more