the.com/packaging materials
the trash you paid for so the thing you wanted could survive the mail.
means the boxes, foam, film, and air pillows whose entire job is to die so your product doesn't have to.
from before cardboard's 1870s boom, goods traveled in wooden crates and straw; corrugated board got patented for wrapping bottles, then took over the world by being cheap, light, and stackable.
biggest waste sourcepackaging is roughly a third of global municipal waste
bubble wrap origininvented in 1957 as failed textured wallpaper
air pillow mathmost shipped air pillows are mostly shipped air
styrofoam ban wavedozens of cities banned it for taking 500 years to decompose