Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Gonna have a gripe!

One of these days I am going to post a list of my pet peeves. Today, I am just writing about one that has me wondering about the wisdom(?) of the ad men.
I have purchased a certain brand of sugarless chewing gum now for over a year. It was always a pack of six packets. There are seven sticks of gum in each packet. Yesterday, I bought what looked like the same product, packed the same way as I have been used to. However, when I opened one I was stunned to discover three cardboard boxes of 14 inside the wrapper, each one of these was wrapped in cellophane.Now, why on earth was it deemed necessary to wrap the little boxes in cellophane?
Ok, I think it is much better for the gum to be in little boxes, as it is more convenient and the gum stays put, but, the cellophane is an unnecessary waste of paper,and resources, as the boxes are already in a wrapper, and it is not helping the environment.
This also applies to all products that we buy, as I have thought for a long time, there is far too much packaging which is a waste, and they are not always easy to open.

1 comment:

Hammy said...

Must be cheaper to package otherwise they wouldn't be doing it.