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15 Photos That Prove Humans Are Addicted to Plastic

If one thing is for certain in this world, it’s that humans are pretty bad at mitigating long term detrimental effects in exchange for short term benefit…

Also, we don’t take good care of our planet. We’re getting better, but we still have a LOOOOOONG way to go.

We careless and wasteful, especially when it comes to harmful products. Plastic is King and we treat it as such. For now, at least.

Let’s take a look at 15 photos that prove we are totally, hopelessly addicted to plastic.

1. Seems a bit wasteful.

I’ll see your peeled oranges in plastic containers and do you one better. from mildlyinfuriating

2. Wow. Not cool.

If theres one thing the world needs its more disposable plastic packaging from mildlyinfuriating

3. Individually wrapped bananas.

This banana is in a wrapper… from mildlyinfuriating

4. Three layers of protection.

The three layers of plastic protection for these oranges. How is this even allowed? from mildlyinfuriating

5. Not necessary.

This store individually wraps eggplants in plastic from mildlyinfuriating

6. What about the natural packaging?

If only this mango had some sort of natural packaging… from mildlyinfuriating

7. Such a huge waste.

This useless packaging / waste of plastic from mildlyinfuriating

8. Looks fancy, but is really dumb.

Unncessary plastic. Again. from mildlyinfuriating

9. That is absolutely ridiculous.

This is getting ridiculous. from mildlyinfuriating

10. All cans need to be wrapped!

The unnecessary plastic wrapping on this single tin of tuna fish from mildlyinfuriating

11. That is absurd.

These vitamin gummies come in a jar, individually wrapped from mildlyinfuriating

12. I’m sorry, what?!

your coke needs that plastic from mildlyinfuriating

13. Just let them be free.

We have enough plastic waste already from mildlyinfuriating

14. Ugh. Here we go again.

These potatoes individually wrapped in plastic from mildlyinfuriating

15. Last one is kind of insane.

Individually wrapped jelly beans from mildlyinfuriating

Those pics are kind of infuriating, aren’t they?

Let’s all pitch in to do our parts and treat Mother Earth a little bit better, okay?

Thank you!

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Kitkat Will Start Using Paper Packaging That You Can Turn into Origami

We produce WAY too much waste and garbage, and that’s why this is some very welcome news.

Lately, we’ve been seeing a wave of huge companies try to ditch plastic in one way or another, and now KitKat is getting in on the action as well. Nestlé owns the iconic candy brand, and it recently started distributing KitKat Mini bars in Japan packaged in paper instead of plastic.

The best part? The new paper packaging comes with instructions on how to make an origami crane, which is a traditional Japanese symbol of thoughts and wishes.

Nestlé announced in January that it wants to have all of its products packaged in fully recyclable material by 2025. To give you an idea of how massive Nestlé’s empire is, the company’s beverage products alone made more than $20 billion last year. That’s a lot of drinks, no?

Japan is the biggest market in the world for KitKats (4 million are sold each day) and the company expects to cut down on about 380 tons of plastic each year with this groundbreaking decision.

Nestlé in Japan plans to debut paper packaging for the regular-sized KitKat multi-packs in September 2020, and for regular-sized individual KitKats in 2021. If that’s not progress, then I don’t know what is, friends.

Nice work, Nestlé. Let’s hope a whole lot of other huge corporations follow your lead sooner than later. Now all we need to do is think of some good instructions we could put in products for Americans…

Any ideas? Share them in the comments below!

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