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EARTH MONTH – 3 Doing away with Excess Packaging

  Yes, we want our goods to arrive safely, but do we really need all this? -Image reuse This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND I haven’t finished my post about Plastic yet, so here are my winners and losers in other packaging over the last couple of weeks. It’s good to see that more of it is at least made from recyclable materials and a lot of that is being recycled - 68% for paper and 91.4% for cardboard in 2021, but there is still far too much of it and it still requires energy and water to reprocess, not mention transport, collection and sorting. Contaminated paper or cardboard can’t be reused - so watch those pizza boxes, and even clean material can only be recycled 5 to 7 times. Toxic chemicals may be used in the process, or in printing and coatings. Excess tape may clog sorting machines and excess packaging still means that more trees are used than necessary, so let’s do without it as much as we can. Fortunately, there are now many new types of natur