Community : Brainstorm : overdone packaging for everything from doorhandles to batteries

……how can we stop this over packaging that is done mostly to look good on the shelves, it would look better to me as a consumer if it was lightly packaged ….

Start a campaign to reward businesses that use minimal packaging with a pledge of business, or pledge to write a blog post about what a great company they are…?

Do you have any specific industries in mind? Products? Brands?

Hi Andrew!

I’m new here, but I and a few others I know that have to take several medications each month want to figure out a way to recycle prescription bottles.
I know with mine, the lables peel right off, so if there was a way to sterilize them or clean them to make sure no remanents of my medication was left in the bottle, I could turn them back in. I cannot imagine how much money it would end up saving all of us in the end….So far the only cleaning method I can come up with is steam-it’s cheap, it kills germs and spores and I think if the temp is high enough it even kills the AIDS virus (?) (have to check on that). Then run it thru a high temp dryer and you’ve got yourself a perfectly good prescription bottle. Americans are just so freakin lazy is what I think the biggest problem is. We all want disposable everything. What do you think?