Excessive and bloated packaging

[oldbluefox]

It happens every year at Eastertime. You open a huge box to find that most of what is inside is just................ air. It doesn't just stop at Easter eggs though. The list of products we buy with excessive or inflated packaging is getting longer; the large packet of biscuits when opened contains a tray with just 8 biscuits on a plastic tray, the bottle of perfume comes in a large box but holds just a small bottle and the fish fillets which looked so tempting in the picture and contained in a sizeable box turn out to be much smaller than you imagined.

Think how much storage space must be taken up in store rooms up and down the country by nothing but air, how many fewer lorries there need be on our roads if they were not carrying half empty boxes, how much less packaging would be needed if it fitted the item(s) inside and how much more you would get in your freezer.

Personally I think it's a marketing con and it's about time it was outlawed because we all pay not only for the packaging but for transporting and storing it.

Rant over!!

[Dancing Queen]

You rant away all you want Foxy because everything you say is true and it is all a marketing con, trouble is we all fall for it

[Manoverboard]

... not to mention the environmental considerations ... oh, yes

[oldbluefox]

............................... and whilst on the subject of Easter why do you get a great big 'filled' egg which is filled with four chocolates and the rest is packaging? It would be far better to be filled with chocolates, you can't eat plastic and tissue paper!!!

Got it on me this weekend - blame Millwall FC....... and the ref!!!!

Mob, when we are all supposed to be saving the planet why are we loading lorries up with half filled boxes. Fill the boxes or make them half the size then we wouldn't need so many lorries making so many trips.

[Manoverboard]

Can't beat a Terry's Chocolate Orange or a bad ref I always say

[oldbluefox]

You don't get bad refs when you are sponsored by the mafia.

Chocolate oranges are great although you do tend to get dents in the coffee table, if you know what I mean.
And I love creme eggs..........

[Jan Rosser]

Oh dear Foxy I don't like to see you in such a bad mood - flippin football

Try and enjoy your Easter - eat lots of chocolate (ignoring the packaging )and keep your pecker up ready for the next game - best wishes from the sunny valleys of south east Wales

[oldbluefox]

Thanks Jan. (Shouldn't you be packing?) Hope you have a lovely Easter day too.

It's nice to see somebody has some sympathy, unlike another certain poster on here!!

[Jan Rosser]

Now that's a more cheerful response

All the clothes etc are in the spare bedroom ready for packing - I'll be nasty for a few days whilst packing won't sleep properly but it will all be worth it I'm sure

Crazy I know but that's me

[Dark Knight]

air is very expensive to transport

[Kenmo1]

It happens every year at Eastertime. You open a huge box to find that most of what is inside is just................ air. It doesn't just stop at Easter eggs though. The list of products we buy with excessive or inflated packaging is getting longer; the large packet of biscuits when opened contains a tray with just 8 biscuits on a plastic tray, the bottle of perfume comes in a large box but holds just a small bottle and the fish fillets which looked so tempting in the picture and contained in a sizeable box turn out to be much smaller than you imagined.

Think how much storage space must be taken up in store rooms up and down the country by nothing but air, how many fewer lorries there need be on our roads if they were not carrying half empty boxes, how much less packaging would be needed if it fitted the item(s) inside and how much more you would get in your freezer.

Personally I think it's a marketing con and it's about time it was outlawed because we all pay not only for the packaging but for transporting and storing it.

Rant over!!

I often wonder how elderly people with arthritic hands get some of the packaging open - I often have to resort to a sharp knife and I'm lucky at present not to have problems hands but some of this plastic stuff is flippin' tough.

[Capt Black]

It's not just foodstuffs that are excessively packaged.

A few months ago I treated myself to a luxury watch. When they brought the box out it was the size of a small house!

I ended up buying the manufacturer's travel case on e-bay, which is the size of a sunglasses case.

The manual for the watch is the size of War and Peace, because it is in several languages and covers every model of watch the manufacturer makes. There is only about 4 pages of this book that relate to my watch!

Apparently, if the watch has to go back to the manufacturer for any reason, they don't want the original box, they will simply place it in a travel case.

[jay-ell71]

Blackie.. You are lucky to have a Manual, you nearly always have to read/download the instructions from the Web, and it is usually 550 pages! Jay

[Capt Black]

Jay,

Oddly enough, on-line there is a video version of the relevant pages, they could simply supply a CD.

[Meg 50]

wasn't there an organisation that used to unpack excessive packaging and leave it on the till in the supermarket as a protest?