Plastic Avengers Strike Again: Calling Out Costco for Wasteful Packaging

It happened again. I spied another egregious use of plastic, this time at Costco. Actually, Erik pointed it out. I almost died when I saw this restaurant selling gift certificates wrapped in more than two feet of plastic!




<----- that's Erik, being a dork.






Make no mistake about it. There was nothing inside this package but a sturdy piece of cardboard with a fancy label printed on it.

Then, in the produce aisle we saw these apples packaged in plastic. I've never seen apples in plastic like this before. I get it: apples bruise. But this is out of control and probably unnecessarily increases the cost of the food.













I had a reader comment on my last PLASTIC POSTING that he/she would rather have airport food wrapped in plastic to keep the germs out. What about produce at the grocery store? Do you agree?

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