[coldtea]

>If advertisers want to market their products and make them look attractive on the shelves, they'll find creative solutions to using recyclable packaging.

The real problem is recycling is itself a charade. Most of what is "recycled" just ends up in landfills in the developing world.

The idea however is nice: I'd say let's make all packaging of any product a standard color (we could also allow a picture of the product as is). Less crap to falsely differentiate a product from another, less visual clutter, less messing with our brains to consume! Products would have to be attractive for what they are!