Plastic Head Games, or Why I Think Anti-Plastic Radicals Are to Blame for Plastic-Sealed Items Getting Harder and Harder to Open
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Have you ever noticed that items sealed in plastic, especially food items, are getting harder and harder to open? Does it seem that it’s getting more difficult to grab an end, or find the plastic flap that made tearing the packaging open easier? Or, just grabbing a loose section of plastic where you could stick a knife or even try to tear it open with your teeth?
I think the anti-plastic radicals are to blame.
You see, if you search the Internet at all, there are people that dislike excessive plastic packaging. And, while I agree that packaging is sometimes excessive, there are those that take things to extremes, complaining about the slightest bit of “excess” plastic in any kind of packaging.
They write to companies, and complain “I’m not buying your products anymore, waaa!, waaa!, waaa!” and so on. And, I think that perhaps they’ve made enough noise and also that companies are motivated to go “green” these days or at least give the appearance of going “green,” that companies are caving to the anti-plastic radicals.
But, they’re doing so in sneaky ways.
I think they are just heat-shrinking the plastic. That way, it looks like less plastic was used in the packaging process. That shuts up those superficial “excess plastic! excess plastic!” crybabies. Looks like less, so it must be less. The companies get fewer letters and the little crybabies happily start buying their products once again.
But, then the rest of us suffer, because that “excess” plastic is what made the plastic easier to get a hold of and open. Now, we have to stab our food with sharp knives, risking getting bits of plastic in our food, all because of a small percentage of whiny little crybabies.
At least, that’s my theory.
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