Sigh. This is the plastic bag that each and every scoop and cord for my 50 scoop bins came in. The bins themselves and the lids also each came in a separate bag. It seemed highly superfluous to prevent any damage to the items given the tidy way they were packaged in cardboard boxes already. I will be contacting the bin supplier, plus a few other suppliers who snuck in packaging that was more than necessary for the products I bought, to provide feedback on the necessity of reducing our usage of materials, especially plastic, to help combat the environmental issues we currently face.
That feeling when you try to reduce waste by opening an eco store and end up with your own bodyweight in soft plastic 🤦♀️ which now can't easily be recycled through Red Cycle. I'll be stockpiling my packaging until Red Cycle or something similar is back up and running again.
The decisions made by people all the way along the supply chain affect the amount of waste produced by your purchases. I hope that with Twist and Sprout we can make a dint in that mountain of waste, doing our bit and then passing that responsibility further up the chain to those larger companies that make the material decisions.
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