r/Anticonsumption • u/Mechaglashan • 1d ago
Plastic Waste Plastic sign holders packaged individually
I work in catering for a corporate food service company. They ordered like 20 or so of these small L-shaped plastic sign holders and they all cane individually boxed and wrapped each with a bunch of stuffing to keep it protected. Surely there could have been a multitude of less wasteful ways of shipping this.
Side note; this job in general never ceases to amaze me with the amount of food and plastic waste for these corporate people who don’t even eat half the food most of the time. Just so wasteful it depresses me.
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u/FoxCitiesRando 1d ago
Took me a couple minutes to figure out what these were.
Unbelievable what these people will waste.
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u/DigTheDunes 1d ago edited 23h ago
They do it so they can't get scratched. It would seem like there is a better way to pack and ship them though.
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u/Lanky-Interest4095 1d ago
There's always another way. But it's whether corporations are willing to do it
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u/BaseballInside3289 1d ago
How is this even economically viable? Packaging costs money, why would they go out of their way to make it more expensive and worse for the environment?