Packaging Design at It’s Worst

Poor packaging design and ridiculous examples of over-packaging come in all shapes and sizes, but it doesn’t get much worse than these individually-wrapped bananas, complete with plastic shrink-wrap and (very non-biodegradable) polystyrene, spied in a U.K. grocery store.

See the slide show on TreeHugger.

What you can do;

Make or buy muslin bags for produce.

I made shopping bags out of old silk clothing; it’s very strong, but folds up very small, so I can keep one in my purse.

A nutrition client of mine lost 85 pounds, she was kind enough to give me some old, beautiful linen dresses, they made awesome shopping bags. I incorporated some of the pleats and embroidery that was part of the clothing;