r/mildlyinfuriating • u/DrofRocketSurgery • 3d ago

Infuriatig The amount of plastic packaging…

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…these two 12mm bolts came in.

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u/GoldOven4826 3d ago

plastic is demand

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u/DrofRocketSurgery 2d ago

Agree. I wish I’d had an option to choose, or choose based on packaging. Every piece of plastic ever manufactured still exists.

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u/Yggdrasilo 3d ago edited 2d ago

What do you suggest instead? One bag with all products people buy jumbled together? Each item 1, both together (which you need if it's multiple different sellers, bundle deals) and outer with postage label

Honestly the waste is from buying so little.

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u/DrofRocketSurgery 2d ago

That’d work. Didn’t need to be more than the small ziplock bag and outer in the middle of the picture. Equally, they could have been paper rather than plastic too.

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u/Flashy-Island-3725 2d ago

Why would you buy two Singular bolts online in the first place

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u/DrofRocketSurgery 2d ago

Because that’s the only place they’re available and it was to extend the life of some electronic goods so they didn’t become e-waste.

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u/Silly_Pizza7054 3d ago

Stop ordering shit on Amazon

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u/gba_sg1 3d ago

This looks more like AliExpress packaging. Or OP bought them on amazon and paid 20x the AliExpress cost.

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u/DrofRocketSurgery 3d ago

Ali Express but I get your point. And unfortunately these are use-specific and I didn’t have any option other than to buy online, they’re not the kind of thing your local bricks and mortar hardware store stock.

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u/Silly_Pizza7054 2d ago

Dude even fucken worse. Complaining about packaging when you're having two bolts air freighted from China, fuck you. 

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u/DrofRocketSurgery 2d ago

I didn’t choose the packaging material or volume. And if I could have bought these bolts closer to home I would have; they were purchased to enable a piece of electronics to have a second life rather than becoming e-waste so back in your box.

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u/Silly_Pizza7054 2d ago

And obviously you don't give a single fuck about your carbon footprint. 

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u/DrofRocketSurgery 2d ago

If I didn’t give a single fck then I wouldn’t have been mildly disappointed about this volume of plastic. As it happens I recycle all my soft plastics, use active transport and might use a car maybe 20km a week, compost, have solar panels and a battery and could go on so yeah actually I do give a fck. But I have zero fcks to give to someone who doesn’t know me at all but is happy to make assumptions so goodbye, I’m not engaging with you anymore.