109 Times Product Packaging Was So Wrong, People Couldn’t Stay Silent Any Longer

Food packaging waste equals to about one-third of all trash, costing governments billions of dollars each year in disposal expenses. We has collected a set of images, proving this huge plastic waste contributor to the global waste crisis could be reduced significantly.

Product packaging solutions often become the subjects of heated debates. While the eco-minded consumers want it to be as minimal as possible (meaning fully recyclable), manufacturers often fire back that they don’t want their products to start decomposing in the store or become an easy target to shoplifters and put many layers of wasteful and entirely unnecessary plastic wrapping. And while some of their arguments have reasons behind them, a lot of the time the amount of plastic wrap is needlessly excessive. Do we need a pill to be wrapped in three layers of plastic? Or, better yet, casings for coke cans?

Now, we do agree that a zero waste life can be quite challenging to lead sometimes, but it is something we should all aspire to if we don’t want to evacuate from our planet Earth in the near future.

Scroll down to learn why we need to rethink packaging and vote for the worst or most ridiculous images!

#1 If Only Nature Would Find A Way To Cover These Oranges So We Didn’t Need To Waste So Much Plastic On Them

#2 Individually Packaged Coke Cans

#3 If Only Bananas Had Robust, Natural, Bio-Degradable Packaging Of Their Own. Some Sort Of Peelable Skin, Perhaps

#4 The Amount Of Packaging For This One Single Pill

#5 7ft Of Air Packaging To Protect The Socks

#6 This Is Just Plain Ridiculous

#7 Amazon, I Don’t Think The Box Was Big Enough

#8 I Ordered 5lbs Of Sugar Free Jelly Belly’s Online… They Arrived Individually Wrapped! Why?

#9 New Laptop Came With Anti-Virus Program. I Only Needed The Security Key Code Underneath A Sticker On The Bar Code. A Huge Waste Of Plastic

#10 Single Wrapped Potatoes

#11 Individually Packaged Slices Of Bread

#12 Ridiculously Redundant Over-Packaging

#13 This Peeled Avocado

#14 A Tic Tac Novelty Box That Has 60 Individual Boxes Each With 6 Tic Tacs… So Much Plastic

#15 This Knife Is Far Too Small For The Packaging

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#16 Amazon Sent My Bubble Wrap Wrapped In Paper

#17 Pre-Peeled Bananas Wrapped In Plastic

#18 So Much Waste

#19 These Organic Oranges Individually Wrapped In Plastic

#20 What On Earth

#21 Less Waste They Say

#22 This Is Some Next Level Laziness

#23 This SATA Packaging

#24 This Is Ridiculous

#25 There’s Silly Amazon Packaging But Then There’s This

#26 If There’s One Thing The World Needs It’s More Disposable Plastic Packaging

#27 Amazon Used Protective Packaging To Ship My Protective Packaging

#28 These Individually Wrapped Premium Strawberries

#29 I Purchased A Pallet At Work And It Arrived Today

#30 So Much Wasted Plastic

#31 Opening A Box Of M&M’s To Find A Bag Of M&M’s

#32 These Gloves Must Be So Fragile…

#33 Harry & David Strawberries

#34 Saving The Planet With 500% More Packaging

#35 Does Anyone (Besides Me) Think It’s Odd That These Organic Free-Range Eggs Come In A Plastic Container Rather Than An Environmentally Friendly Recycled Paper One?

#36 Inside This 30 X 30 X30 Cm Box From Sun Was Another Box. Inside That, Was Another Box. Inside That Was Some Foam And An Antistatic Strap + Bag… Inside That? A Cr2302 Battery, About The Size Of An Australian 10c Coin

#37 Festive Potatoes. Just Gonna Leave This One Here

#38 They Sent Me This Tiny Micro SD Card (Red Thing On The Bottom Right) In This Huge Package. What A Waste Of Plastic

#39 Dear Amazon Packaging Dept, You May Have Gone A Bit Overboard On Protecting This Burt’s Bees Lotion. I’m Not Sure That This Size Box Or This Amount Of Protection Was Needed, But Thanks For Being Over Cautious

#40 Pointless Packaging

#41 No One Wants To Avocuddle With This Much Plastic

#42 Why Are There So Many Wrapper Layers? I Just Want To Eat Some Candy

#43 Impressive

#44 Banana In A Bag

#45 All This Packaging For A Single Mango

#46 Costco Packaging Is Absurdly Huge

#47 Unnecessary Packaging

#48 If Only Garlic Had A Natural, Biodegradable Casing Instead Of Plastic

#49 How Extra Do You Need To Be To Buy Individual Shallot And Garlic Bulbs In Boxes Instead Of Loose?

#50 What’s The Point Of This?

#51 This Nerds Easter Egg Contains A Single Box Of Nerds

#52 Gummy Bear Cup

#53 These Tomatoes

#54 Unwrappig This Chicken Takes Longer Than Cooking It

#55 I Ordered One Jar Of Honey Mustard And The Packaging Is A Little Excessive

#56 Dear Amazon, Are You Kidding Me?

#57 These Clementines

#58 100% Compostable Pods. 0% Compostable Packaging. Good One Mcdonald’s

#59 Following The Post On Amazon And Their Excess Packaging… I Give You My Cellophane Roll Complete With Huge Box And 55 Feet Of Paper

#60 These Individually Wrapped 3-Inch Slices Of Watermelon

#61 Look At These Lemons

#62 A Single 6mm Earring

#63 Is This Packaging Really Necessary Zyrtec?

#64 Carrots In Japan

#65 Wholefoods Is Selling Lemongrass *in A Plastic Box* And Charging $2.99 For Essentially Half A Piece Of It

#66 Single Serve Wine In Plastic Cups

#67 The Ridiculous Amount Of Unnecessary Packaging This Load Of Bread Comes With

#68 Just As Nature Intended

#69 Asked For Bacon On The Side

#70 I’ve Gotta Call Out Vans On This. My One Order Arrived In Two Packages Today, About 6 Hours Apart. The Second One Was My Youngest’s Teeny Tiny Old Skool Shoes Rattling Around All Alone In This Gigantic Box

#71 Useless Packaging

#72 These Apples

#73 This Kiwi

#74 Why Not Just Buy A Fresh Watermelon?

#75 This Packaging. Entire Contents On The Left

#76 Why Though?

#77 This Individually Wrapped Jelly Bean

#78 Pre-Peeled Onions In Plastic

#79 Seriously?

#80 SD Memory Card Packaging

#81 Hey, Gillette Would You Please Re-Think Your Packaging? Especially When We Need To Cut All The Excess Paper To Get To The Actual Product And The Package Become Useless