SELL MORE!!! BUY MORE!!! BUY! BUY!

[iamwhatiseem]

This is a new documentary on Netflix worth watching.
There are moments that will blow your mind in the shear scale of unnecessary "planned waste" that corporations purposefully generate to sell more products.

As well as the shear scale of consumer waste that the average person generates in buying buying buying stuff they don't need. While claiming to care about climate change.

And the absolute unapparelled King if Waste - Amazon. Followed closely by Apple.

 

[1srelluc]

I can attest to the packaging waste.

These days stuff has packaging enough to cover three or more of the same product.

They are also getting more people-proof. I have to use game shears to get into some of them.

I swear, I ordered a battery hold down strap for my four-wheeler.....The rubber strap was about 6" X 1.50" and arrived in a box full of packaging pillows that would have held a gross of them with room to spare.....WTF?

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I can attest to the packaging waste.

These days stuff has packaging enough to cover three or more of the same product.

They are also getting more people-proof. I have to use game shears to get into some of them.

I swear, I ordered a battery hold down strap for my four-wheeler.....The rubber strap was about 6" X 1.50" and arrived in a box full of packaging pillows that would have held a gross of them with room to spare.....WTF?

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The packaging makes me crazy!


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[1srelluc]

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The packaging makes me crazy!


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Gerber game shears are your friend.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Gerber game shears are your friend.

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I think I'll get over to Runnings or Cabella's and check them out. I currently use my buxom kitchen shears that are tough enough to cut through chicken bone, but I don't want to put them through the packaging.


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[odanny]

There has always been something called "planned obsolescence" that manufacturers rely on, and I can't believe the lifespan I can get out of everything from cars and trucks to toaster ovens. What I always find surprising is that the most inexpensive stuff can often function the longest.

Where I used to work whenever there was an engineering change and a new part came out, brand new parts that were being replaced were marked as scrap and sent on a semi trailer somewhere to be disposed of, so wasteful.

 

[1srelluc]

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I think I'll get over to Runnings or Cabella's and check them out. I currently use my buxom kitchen shears that are tough enough to cut through chicken bone, but I don't want to put them through the packaging.


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I have them in the kitchen, shop, gun room, and in my hunting kit.....I've got so I can skin and work-up a squirrel using only the shears.

 

[ReinyDays]

Then stop buying ... stop going to Walmart ... there's nothing in there you need ... nothing ... except food, maybe, why not grow your own? ...

 

[Moonglow]

This is a new documentary on Netflix worth watching.
There are moments that will blow your mind in the shear scale of unnecessary "planned waste" that corporations purposefully generate to sell more products.

As well as the shear scale of consumer waste that the average person generates in buying buying buying stuff they don't need. While claiming to care about climate change.

And the absolute unapparelled King if Waste - Amazon. Followed closely by Apple.

You know the alternative of they don't program the masses with the urgency to buy and spend.

 

[Moonglow]

Then stop buying ... stop going to Walmart ... there's nothing in there you need ... nothing ... except food, maybe, why not grow your own? ...

I need a heat lamp to start seeds in the winter

 

[ReinyDays]

I need a heat lamp to start seeds in the winter

No you don't ... did Cro-Magnon Woman need heat lamps when she invent agriculture? ...

 

[petro]

It's Christmas season.
Time to buy endless cheap plastic crap, that will be worthless within a year and end up in a landfill, our streets, or eventually our waters.
Everything today should carry the Bic lable.
Nothing is built to last anymore.
I have gone through a television every five years when it inevitably fails, while my grandparents had the same television for thirty years. Their vacuum cleaner was a lifetime purchase.

Wasteful packaging?

Seriously, WTF is this crap?

Single use bottled water?
Drink up if you enjoy the taste of microplastics, because that is exactly what you are ingesting.

Yes, the companies are guilty of putting this crap out. But consumers are part of the problem buying garbage because of convenience.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Gerber game shears are your friend.

I have kitchen shears I use for that as well as Wiss cuttersm which will cut even through metal.

 

[petro]

Gerber game shears are your friend.

That will come in handy opening this...

 

[gipper]

It's Christmas season.
Time to buy endless cheap plastic crap, that will be worthless within a year and end up in a landfill, our streets, or eventually our waters.
Everything today should carry the Bic lable.
Nothing is built to last anymore.
I have gone through a television every five years when it inevitably fails, while my grandparents had the same television for thirty years. Their vacuum cleaner was a lifetime purchase.

Wasteful packaging?
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Seriously, WTF is this crap?

Single use bottled water?
Drink up if you enjoy the taste of microplastics, because that is exactly what you are ingesting.

Yes, the companies are guilty of putting this crap out. But consumers are part of the problem buying garbage because of convenience.

Our government is guilty too. The enormous and expensive government bureaucracy is supposed to protect the people and environment, but instead it protects the corporations.

What a great country!

 

[petro]

Our government is guilty too. The enormous and expensive government bureaucracy is supposed to protect the people and environment, but instead it protects the corporations.

What a great country!

The very people that lecture me about my V8 pickup do this...

 

[1srelluc]

Gerber Game Shears also makes a thoughtful gift that won't break the bank.

I used to give them (and a Mora fixed blade knife) to the guys at hunt camp. Quality usefulness is always appreciated.

 

[mudwhistle]

There has always been something called "planned obsolescence" that manufacturers rely on, and I can't believe the lifespan I can get out of everything from cars and trucks to toaster ovens. What I always find surprising is that the most inexpensive stuff can often function the longest.

Where I used to work whenever there was an engineering change and a new part came out, brand new parts that were being replaced were marked as scrap and sent on a semi trailer somewhere to be disposed of, so wasteful.

I noticed that batteries and lightbulbs don't last as long as they used to.

Most of the Chinese batteries leak in a couple of months and ruin whatever they're in.

 

[odanny]

The very people that lecture me about my V8 pickup do this...
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I cannot believe how many all-weather campaign signs are churned out every election only to end up just like these, incredible waste.

The real issue is the Coca Cola and Pepsico and numerous other multinational corporations who make enormous profits cranking out products packaged in plastic and have zero responsibility towards the results of this single use waste that is choking our oceans and landfills with the remains. Each of these corporations should pay an annual tax towards the recycling of these plastics, yet with all those profits they generate, they have no responsibility.

It's been said we all eat around 5 grams of plastic a week, the weight of a credit card.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I have them in the kitchen, shop, gun room, and in my hunting kit.....I've got so I can skin and work-up a squirrel using only the shears.

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Are they expensive? My Cutco kitchen shears go for $135. That's why I only have one pair.


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