It's not the box, it's the contents.
Sep. 4th, 2010 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynYou know what we need? Better individual packaging.
In this era of [a certain subset of] people thinking we need less packaging it's not going to be a popular opinion, of course, but the current method of packaging stuff sucks.
The miniature boxes of cereal are idiotic because they're not a whole portion of cereal and they tend to only come in variety packs including stuff no self-respecting adult would eat, while including things no children consider food.
But the family-size boxes of things always go stale before I can finish them.
Then I was thinking about those air-pocket things that Amazon uses for padding in their boxes. They're perforated between the pockets. It's obviously air-tight. And there's printing on them, so they could be labeled with anything.
If that was how cereal was sold, one could buy a wheel of packets. Pantries could have a cereal bar like paper towel holders that come mounted to the under-cabinet. It wouldn't take up more room than the regular boxes at the store (perhaps the shelves would need to have a different configuration, but the volume wouldn't be that different.)
We don't need individual cardboard boxes per half-serving, but if the big outer box could have several sealed packets of the contents, there would be less food wasted. And isn't that the point of packaging?
In this era of [a certain subset of] people thinking we need less packaging it's not going to be a popular opinion, of course, but the current method of packaging stuff sucks.
The miniature boxes of cereal are idiotic because they're not a whole portion of cereal and they tend to only come in variety packs including stuff no self-respecting adult would eat, while including things no children consider food.
But the family-size boxes of things always go stale before I can finish them.
Then I was thinking about those air-pocket things that Amazon uses for padding in their boxes. They're perforated between the pockets. It's obviously air-tight. And there's printing on them, so they could be labeled with anything.
If that was how cereal was sold, one could buy a wheel of packets. Pantries could have a cereal bar like paper towel holders that come mounted to the under-cabinet. It wouldn't take up more room than the regular boxes at the store (perhaps the shelves would need to have a different configuration, but the volume wouldn't be that different.)
We don't need individual cardboard boxes per half-serving, but if the big outer box could have several sealed packets of the contents, there would be less food wasted. And isn't that the point of packaging?
