Welcome to the plastic littered world of overpackaging
Welcome to the plastic littered world of overpackaging
Well hello and thank you for coming to Overpackaging. I’ve recently relaunched this site after building it many years ago and eventually not having the time to update it. I’d seen some pretty bad examples of wasteful packaging recently so I thought it would be getting the site back online and letting people add their …
Think of how many plastic items you use in a day, just count them up. I’m going to make an assumption here that with you being on this site and reading this you are a bit more responsible than your average Joe (or Jane) so probably use less than most. So if you think about …
I bought a shiny new Braun Oral B electric toothbrush however I think I was supposed to also buy a Braun Chainsaw to get through the plastic packaging! I’ve seen more plastic used on items than this before but but it’s still so unnecessary and unnecessarily hard to open. I cut the plastic with some …
Now after choking on your Air Wick air ‘freshener’ you can help clog up the landfills! Unnecessary cardboard inserts and even plastic ones thrown in for good measure.
The white box contains a single switch socket (9cm by 9cm), the box it came in is roughly 55cm long by 35cm wide by 25cm deep! The funny thing is, the packaging actually cost more than the socket! £4 for the socket and another £6 for the extra litter, thanks very much Screwfix.