OK, we do live in a world that it is too easy to become jaded, that I admit. So why does it upset me when I see the obvious simply being ignored?
I just picked up a supplement at the supermarket, and when I opened it, less than 1/4 of the bottle was filled. For some reason today it hit me like a wet slap. The bottle was also wrapped in plastic and affixed to a huge piece of cardboard. I’ve been in business school/marketing. I get the whole idea, package it so it says,”Look at me, buy me.” And the amount of excess packaging on all the products in that ONE store is mind boggling when considered. Multiply that by all the stores in North America! There has been some legislation was brought in for reducing packaging size in the past, but it seems like that was more of a political knee jerk reaction. Just like the way cars got smaller for a period during the ’70s energy crisis, but have gone back to big, bigger, biggest gas guzzlers ever.
So if we really are tipping on the edge of a manmade disaster, then why are we so hell bent on doing all we can to push ourselves over? IF this is a real threat, then legislation/laws need to be brought in to reduce the excess. If every manufacturer had to abide by the same rules, no one could cry foul. That is the very least that could be done to show that this is a real threat to be taken seriously. Till then we are going to consume and produce waste like there really is no tomorrow… and at this rate there might not be. —Enough Already
This article appears in Nov 1-7, 2012.
Its just a sign for a Tea company. Get over it.
Praise the Lord! Someone has seen the light!
it won’t happen voluntarily. we need a plague. or a walking dead situation. something to break the process. start us over again. not that eventually it will not end up exactly the same, it will, humans being human. but it will give the earth a wee break from our tender ministrations.
I’m holding out for a Zombie Apocalypse myself, I don’t know if the rest y’all are prepared too
i cut my teeth on jack london. been ready to live rough for years. it better hurry though, i am getting old and will have to submit myself for ice floe duty.
i’m assuming we’ve all read the survival guide, we have the weapons and two hideouts. unfortunately, like good dog i’m heading for ice floe duty myself
don’t vote conservative if you care about anything except money
i have piles and piles of wool blankets i picked up at thrift stores paingirl. i will share & we’ll be warm, for a while
oh crap, the ice is disappearing. i am not going to hog a whole ice floe and let the polar bears swim.
i have to get someone willing to grind me up for dog food so my molly will eat.
OB , don’t go & buy a Oral … electric toothbrush you could fit at least 6 of them with room to spare in the box. Let us not forget all the people employed making the packaging, all the people employed taking the used packaging to the recycling plant &/or garbage dump ( I’m getting tired of sissy language) there are no landfills, all we actually have are garbage dumps & we cover the garbage with dirt….that doesn’t mean its “land” !
Its way past time to calling things what they really are …fucking landfill, makes it sound like we have a place where we are filling it with something nice aka land…. ITS FUCKIN’ GARBAGE PEOPLE !
Sorry bullshit language has been pissing me off
you know my latest disappointment? my guy in dist 11 didn’t get in…he had me at his campaign promise to stop the ridiculous practice of forcing us to use blue plastic garbage bags to put out the recyclables. i don’t agree with any kind of garbage bag. what’s wrong with a metal tin that you throw only what has to be thrown in.
and why on earth would anyone in my area bag up leaves???? compost anyone????
It’s so you tree hugging d bags don’t steal it. Pretty hard to hide that huge package in your bum jacket vs a little tiny bottle…
I get a kick out of the new, LED light bulbs. Absolutely fantastic energy savings and they last 10-20 times longer than standard incandescent ones, but then they sell them one or 2 per package and each one totally encased in vacuum formed, molded plastic, followed by box board and paper inserts. All of it recyclable, great, but what kind of energy is being used to create this needless packaging? Jesus! Whatever happened to putting 2 bulbs in the old style rectangular box board cover with the corrugated sleeve?
when you went to school o.p., did they teach you to read? maybe if you checked out the label, you would have know n how many, or how much was in bottle? if it says 100, then there should be 100, either pils, or liquid.
we need a ‘you are such a dink’ button….anyway, prob a troll.
those new bulbs..aren’t they poisonous when broken or something?
packaging is insane,…eggs are in crushable cardboard, while a ratchet is encased in more rigid plastic than our sainted prime minister.
blow me, i believe the OP was referring to the empty space at the top of the bottle, not the numbers of the pills. ie: pill bottle was too big for the amount of product. waste of material.
“those new bulbs..aren’t they poisonous when broken or something?”
You’re thinking Compact Fluorescent Bulbs, (CFL’s), Molly. They contain small amounts of mercury, among other things, that has the potential to be dangerous if not handled properly when they break. They are also considered hazardous waste and shouldn’t be thrown out in the regular garbage. The new LED’s are all solid-state electronic. No burning elements or electrically charged gases. They use a fraction of the power of even CFL’s and some last up to 20 years under normal usage. They are a lot pricier compared to regular bulbs so, I’m slowly replacing my old bulbs for these a few at a time. But anything to help offset the GD power rates.
thanks avast! where have i been? hadn’t even heard of new leds except as christmas lights.
you knowm with the price of them, and the longevity, tieing in to other posting on rentals, no way is anyone going to be leaving their lightbulbs in a suite when they leave. it’ll be ‘provide your own’
Yep! I can see that happening. I can also see people putting conditional sales clauses into real estate contracts stating something like, “Sale to include all fixtures, window treatments and LED light bulbs.” lol At least until the price comes down a bit more.
Not that I plan on moving anytime soon, but I’m keeping all my old bulbs, (they still work after all) so I can swap them back out again. LED’s will be coming with me! lol
candles work, unless you have pets that catch their tails on fire. he was fine, he didn’t even notice
paingilr! lolol, you too? …diane and i were having a romantic (ahem), with a candle on the beside table, when all of a sudden i sat up and yelled ‘i smell FUR burning!’
and it was booger, his whole side aflame, we both grabbed him and patted out the fire. he was fine, but a little sparse on that side for a while.
my boss’s old, blind and deaf dog became the holiday YULE DOG when his head ignited from a fireplace spark. he was so happy with all the head patting, tail just a thumping.
i have a secret hoard of orignal bulbs too avast. i have a couple of lamps that just need ‘that’ kind of light.
teehee
molly, from one hot pussy about another, cool. i like it.
good lord man, you get a rise out of imagining two 60 year old, wrinkled and saggy women in bed together? unbelieveable.
Your problem started when you decided to purchase a supplement….
haha blowme you beat me to it.
Op, the quantity is pretty clearly labeled on most bottles. That and if you know all the tricks of the marketing trade, why did you buy it to begin with?