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@skyfire101 @energisch_ @cooopsspace @ajsadauskas @green

Is the book still bent?

@skyfire101 @energisch_ @cooopsspace @ajsadauskas @green

That sounds more like an issue with shipping than with Amazon’s packaging.

Books just need to be handled differently and then probably placed with similar items.

@Urban_Hermit @ajsadauskas @green

Rather than calling it guilting, perhaps take it as good advice?

Often essentially all the focus is placed on the companies who produce the stuff, then we go and buy little plastic bottles of cola.

We don’t need to drink cola.

Clearly in that case, in buying the cola, we are putting brief pleasure and convenience over the environment. Maybe while telling ourselves we have a conscience and trying to place the responsibility solely with companies that exist because people buy the product.

@energisch_ @cooopsspace @ajsadauskas @skyfire101 @green

I wonder about the viability for a business that, for example, produces cola and other soft drinks, keeps them in large containers, then goes around filling people’s home containers up

@energisch_ @cooopsspace @ajsadauskas @skyfire101 @green

Legislation would be good, to stop this, before that though, possibly avoiding places that do use excessive plastic packaging.

Avoiding online shopping could be good, but for some people that might mean using a car to go and do the shopping, which likely has a greater impact on the environment than the packaging, or having it delivered by a single vehicle that delivers to many homes,

@IronCurtain @ajsadauskas @green

Depends on where you are and what plastics. Generally plastic film is not recycled.

Much of the problem is still due to people not realising what can or cannot be recycled, placing things that are too dirty into the recycling, and contaminating the entire recycling bin.

@energisch_ @cooopsspace @ajsadauskas @skyfire101 @green

I go to the shop for groceries, I put the products in a reusable bag.

I have my groceries delivered, I put the products in a resizable bag at the door.

I buy cosmetics from a shop. I put them in a reusable bag.

I have cosmetics delivered, they come in a small cardboard box.

Generally speaking, apart from stuff from eBay where the seller appears to have used a whole roll of plastic tape, maybe some often biodegradable packing material, there is little difference in use of plastic packaging.

The issue appears to be more with how the products themselves are packaged, and the lack of reusable containers.