OT for this actual thread but still sorta on topic. I'm wondering how Samsung for example will do with their new initiative to take out plastic in packaging from their products. A cell phone I think is fairly easy to do that while also providing structural protection of the device. A fridge? A tv? That I'm more interesting to see how they will still provide that protection of the product.
On that note though I think Disney could do a lot of that in their products.
That's what really annoys me about Disney's July announcement. It made absolutely no commitment to reducing or eliminating the amount of unrecyclable plastic that's in their merchandise packaging, and exploring alternatives like bioplastic, and making more repurposable and eco-friendly packaging like the first wave Moana doll I got in the
Disney Store in Times Square 2 years ago, during the Moana release promotion. I was impressed with how it used 70% PCR paper, plant-based inks, easily-separatable packaging for recycling (especially for where plastic packaging can be recycled), and most of all, the fact that the packaging can even convert into a boat. And then when the homogenised packaging came, I was dismayed at how it didn't adopt the same ideas from the first wave Moana doll, and how it was almost entirely plastic (my area cannot recycle that type of packaging).
While the plastic bags can be reused (and I refuse to call them 'single-use'; I call them 'conflated single-use, but is reusable, and has high reuse potential'), and I never throw away any bags I get, especially Disney ones because I love collecting the many different designs they have (I have many Store ones from all the years, and some Parks ones too, mostly from DLP and the time I went to WDW 12 years ago), the packaging almost certainly never gets reused, and granted, while I can understand the whole straw and lid thing too (they also get disposed of 99% of the time), too much focus is on these and yet there's never enough focus on packaging, and all that greenwashing and virtue-signalling for the bottom line is what really drives me up the wall. Again, don't get me wrong, I'm all for solutions, but solutions must be balanced and please both sides (those who favour convenience vs those who favour the hairshirt route), and focus must especially not get lost on packaging.