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Wasteful Packaging

Mr. Trash Can Is Overworked!

Check out this cute animated video from GOOD about an over-worked American trash can. It serves as inspiration to reduce our own output of trash as well as industrial waste.

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HP Over-Packages to Epic Proportions

Talk about incredibly wasteful packaging. When it comes to products being ridiculously over-packaged, HP is among the usual suspects, which also include Dell, AT&T and Amazon. We thought we’d seen it all when Brett from TUAW received an invoice for ““75011 MISC iPhone PPA BAG … $0.00”, packed up in a big box along with [...]

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D’oh! Earth to Online Retailers: Cut The Dumb Over-Packaging BS

Christ on a bicycle, this is some planet killing over-packaging madness. Gizmodo asked readers to submit photos of wasteful shipping from online retailers, and they delivered, providing dozens of images showing a handful of tiny items inside a giant box.
Of course, we could all help cut down on this sort of thing by shopping locally [...]

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