WEEK 7 – Poorly Designed Packaging

Something that you often forget about that can be quite annoying is packaging. We often like to joke about how chip bags these days are more air than chips, or how the plastic on scissors can be ironically impossible to open, but we’re all just so used to it that it just seems normal to us.

In my mind, there’s two types of this issue. The first type is with food packaging. Usually this entails a half-full bag of chips or a granola bar that’s smaller than you thought it would be. This is irritating because it makes it seem like you’re getting more than you actually are, because once you open the packaging, you can see that a good portion of it is just air. It’s also a huge waste of materials as well as wasteful when it comes to the environment.

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The packaging on these bananas is extremely unnecessary and very wasteful.
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A lot of air in the packaging makes you think you’re getting more than you actually get. It would be better to condense the packaging.

The other type is packaging for non-perishable items. For example, this image of packaging for these “LOL Dolls” is crazy! So many items have such unnecessary packaging nowadays, and it creates a lot of waste, which is bad for the environment.

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The ratio of actual toys is trash is simply horrifying!

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