Unnecessary Packaging

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18 Aug, 2008

Painful Painkiller Packaging

Posted by: waste-knot In: Uncategorized

A member of my family allowed me to take a peek at his painkiller packaging yesterday.  He laughs every time he picks up his huge bag of fifteen Fentanyl patches at the pharmacy.  Here’s why…
 

In this first shot, I’ve placed a red Sharpie in, for scale purposes.  The box is not all that big, roughly [...]


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Companies need to start being held responsible for the amount of packaging they put around their products. Products are shipped in excessively sized boxes full of harmful packaging materials. We need to let these companies know that we are not happy with these practices.

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