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packets of ketchup are super wasteful
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All those individually wrapped candies EDIT: MicroSD cards!!!
How’re are sd cards wasteful?
I think they mean the packaging. Micro SD cards usually come in a package that's 10x the volume of the card, itself.
Though, I'm not sure there's a decent way around that one. It's really difficult to ship and stock incredibly small products like that.
Why does the packaging need plastic though? It's absurd to me that coffe cups and stuff have to be degradable and made out of wood/carton (which is a good thing). And yet for a product where it shouldn't matter "hey let's use as much plastic as we can for this packaging".
I've been keeping SD cards in a drawer unprotected for years and I have yet to see one break.
You want to know the ridiculous thing about that - the coffee cup thing is a complete con. They can't be recycled as paper/cardboard because they have a polymer coating to allow them to maintain their structure.
Mostly it's cardboard with a small amount of plastic around the card itself so you can see what you're buying (and presumably so you can also see that somebody hasn't discretely opens the packet and nicked the card).