Pointless plastic! Shoppers share the most wasteful examples of packaging ever, from individually wrapped slices of bread to an orange in a pot
Although plastic can take up to 1,000 years to decompose, it is still widely used in many packaging.
But even though items like oranges and bananas have built-in peels, this hasn’t stopped manufacturers around the world from putting extra plastic around them.
The ones at Bored Panda collected the most embarrassing packaging decisions noticed by consumers around the world.
This includes taking out bread to be individually wrapped, as well as putting a satsuma in a plastic jar for no apparent reason.
In no time, a customer’s groceries were placed in three large cardboard boxes, even though they were all ordered from the same warehouse.
Those at Bored Panda collected examples of the most pointless uses of plastic packaging ever. In the photo: individually wrapped slices of bread
In one case, an order of bubble wrap even came with some added plastic for ‘protection’.
At a time when consumers want to make more environmentally conscious decisions, companies are still clearly making decisions that harm the environment.
Here, FEMAIL looks at the times excessive packaging was used – often for no reason.
One store in Japan even had ‘individually wrapped lemon slices’, but customers commented that they looked ‘kinda fake’
Yes! A woman was shocked to discover that the five nail polishes she ordered arrived in separate boxes with lots of packaging
No logic! People from all over the world have been sharing frustrating packaging mistakes and Bored Panda has collected the worst in an online gallery. Included ‘eco friendly’ toothpicks that were individually wrapped in plastic
The ‘gift of nothing’ for the ‘person who has everything’ consists of a cardboard spreader and a plastic ball with nothing in it
Since the peel of an orange is clearly not enough, one store decided to put it in a small plastic container so it could be shared in one go
Toothpaste was put in a plastic container and charged £20 apparently just for that in a UK supermarket
A special cinnamon churro donut received an entire plastic wrapper at Hannaford Supermarket in the US
One customer received 47,785 ml packaging for 5.4 ml of product. These boxes all came from the same warehouse
Apparently in this case, a shipment of bubble wrap bizarrely required additional plastic packaging to protect it
Instead of putting the forks in one large bag, these cutlery pieces were individually packaged
These bananas, from Irish-American company Dole, left shoppers shocked with their packaging as they were wrapped in plastic wrap and placed in a container