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by CM30 2994 days ago
They could always start with the non food related products. Why does every piece of tech seem to come in a ton of plastic packaging anyway? Not so much the computers, but mice, printers, cartridges, etc...

Reduce or ban plastic from being used to package tech products, toys, media and random non food consumables and you'd probably cut down on a lot of plastic usage now.

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To make it harder to shoplift.

It's the reason DVD cases are shrinkwrapped, otherwise people will just empty the cases.

Yeah, I know that logic. But I think the same still applies; the environmental impact matters more than a company's bottom line does, and I feel governments should start taking that into account.