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How about not buying stuff with poor packaging. Sure, sometimes we don’t have a choice, but many times we do. Often it’s as simple as preparing food at home versus getting take out. I’d prefer laws to mandate recycleable packaging. Problem solved. Petrochemical industry will be ticked.

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People working 12 hours per day don't really have time to cook. Also if stuff wrapped in plastic is cheaper, people will buy it as money is a limited resource they need for so many other things.

Unless there is government action to mandate some sort of rules around this - mainly to force companies to use reusable containers - blaming little consumers is a fool's endeavor.

Luckily most people don't work 12 hours per day.

Lots of poor and blue collar working class people do 12 hour work days (for example truckers or workers in construction). And these are the people that are usually described here as "primitive" consumers who only eat fast food and buy cheap prepared food in plastic containers.

I'd be all for it.

Especially when it comes to things I'd like to switch on in the store before taking it home to discover that it's not working as intended.

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