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the trash you fight for ten minutes to reach the joy inside for ten seconds.
means the boxes, foams, films, and fillers whose entire job is to keep a product intact between factory and your regret-free hands.
from straw and sawdust once did the job until 1965's foamed polystyrene and the 1957 corrugated-cardboard boom made shipping fragile things cheap and casual.
styrofoam nametrademarked by dow, technically not the peanuts
bubble wrap origininvented in 1957 as textured wallpaper
cardboard strengthcorrugated ridges add strength without much weight
global wastepackaging makes up roughly a third of all trash