SAU1 Final post: Excessive Packaging

   

<the picture show you how many package you would cost if you buy two fish>

     Beautiful packaging, is conducive to the sale of goods. Proper packaging is necessary. However, many products excessive packaging nowadays. The seller exaggerates the function of packaging, misleading consumer attitudes, injuring the interests of consumers and society. Over-packaging consumes excessive resources, making the society bear the excessive cost of packaging.

     Here's an example by myself, I bought many things on "Taobao" this month, which is a online shopping center in China. I bought goods from many different sellers. Because Taobao's goods often free shipping, even you just buy a pen or a T-shirt. I finally bought these products from nearly thirty sellers. When it came to Taiwan, I received two big burlap bags, and insides these bags, there was also twenty-seven cartons. Each carton might just have one skirt, one bag or few stationary. Not to mention how many plastic bags of goods are there. I list some drawback of excessive packaging in the following paragraphs, and let's go ahead and read.

     Excessive packaging bring a lot of adverse effects. First, it wastes a lot of resources. Raw materials such as paper, rubber, glass, steel, plastic, wood, oil, steel and other raw materials are scarce resources in our country. If it is used in a large number of excessive packaging without corresponding recycling, it will cause a lot of waste.

     Second,it would pollute the environment. Consumers discarded a large number of packaging waste, increasing the pollution of the environment. In China, about 182,000 tons of corrugated cardboard are wasted due to packaging every year, which is equivalent to an annual cut of 1,547 hectares of forest.

    The last point is it would undermine social interests. Costumers need to pay more money to buy these excessive package no matter they need or not. It also cost fierce unfair competition in the market. Companies pay higher cost to get more beautiful products. Excessive packaging has formed a luxurious, exaggerated social atmosphere.This is not conducive to build a conservation-oriented society.

     Excessive packaging waste of natural resources, polluting our environment, endangering the interests of society. We should reject this phenomenon. In order to avoid excessive packaging, I think first of all we should raise our awareness and change our opinion. Excessive packaging is just selling vanity, not courtesy. Building a conservation-oriented society. Everyone have a responsibility to change the attitude. No matter you are costumer, company or worker. We are all human living on the earth. We should protect our planet together and make our society better.