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No more AIR PILLOWS - Amazon

fthunt — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:58:22 GMT

Packing shipping boxes with paper.

POP

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PA Mom-mom — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:26:31 GMT

@fthunt I hope that's true. The paper is so much easier to reuse or recycle. So sick of slicing open the air pillows.

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Imaoldhippie — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:27:46 GMT

I think some companies are doing away with plastics. A Subway used paper bags for their to go bag last week.

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Kachina624 — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 18:28:05 GMT

What's the point of packing a box with something heavy then sticking in a little piece of crumpled paper? They'll do that with a 35lb bag of dog food and it's just a waste of paper.

I've received boxes with air pillows twice in the past week so they're not gone.

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Cakers3 — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 18:35:25 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
What's the point of packing a box with something heavy then sticking in a little piece of crumpled paper? They'll do that with a 35lb bag of dog food and it's just a waste of paper.

I've received boxes with air pillows twice in the past week so they're not gone.

@Kachina624 The plan is to eliminate them completely by the end of the year, not immediately.

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We rescue cats — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 18:45:33 GMT

Good to know! I know we are trying so hard to eliminate plastic where we can it takes years for it to breakdown.

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SaveTheTurtles — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:36:58 GMT

I'm fine with it as long as my orders don't arrive broken or mangled.

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CalminHeart — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 12:07:39 GMT

I'd be happy to never see another air pillow. They fill up landfills and waterways and cause countless problems for animals, sea creatures, finding clean water, and people. Paper can be recycled.

The same goes for factory farms. I live in a state with a lot of them and runoff, spills, and dumps have resulted in the dirtiest waterways in the country. Add plastic and it's a disaster.

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gardenman — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 12:36:52 GMT

I've never found the air pillows to be an issue. They pop easily and the plastic is very thin and lightweight. It wasn't that long ago that the environmentalists wanted us to use less paper as paper comes from forests and they were against deforestation. Now using paper by the ton is apparently fine.

NJ's ban on disposable plastic bags has created more trouble than it's solved. Any delivery now comes in a reusable bag (that you have to pay for) and if you have a lot of stuff delivered, you end up with dozens or even hundreds of reusable bags that never get reused. Each of those reusable bags are heavier, use more plastic, and take even longer to break down. According to one study cited by CNN, a cotton bag needs to be reused 7,100 times to make it as environmentally friendly as a disposable plastic bag. NJ came up with a reusable bag recycling program, but was soon swamped with bags. They just never die. The old disposable bags were often reused for dog waste, used kitty litter, garbage, and other similar uses while the new ones just pile up and there's not much to do with them.

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hkrgrl — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 14:14:30 GMT

YUP,

we went from paper for everything: shopping, butcher, lunchmeat (waxed)

to plastic for everything, now going back to paper.

AMAZon said the paper used to stuff boxes is coming from 100% recycled content, so that a good thing!

they need to come up with better ways to recycle what we use from soup to nuts!!

we have 2 old TV's that we can't get rid of, trash or recycle. still looking of how to dispose of. wrote to House Rep, no reply.

township will take for $40 each!! i am sorry, i pay for trash yearly, sewer rent yearly and all my other taxes to boot. no i am not giving my township $80 to dispose of tv's.

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wagirl — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:39:25 GMT

My favorite is--packing a box inside another box---love that--I can see if it were a tiny box but mostly its a large box inside an even larger box---

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candys mine — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 12:13:56 GMT

Funny that. As I recall that's All they used to use.

That and Paper bags. Anyone else remember the UPROAR over switching to those thin plastic bags at the checkout line way back when?

I keep those thin bags. They're great to keep in a pocket just in case you pick up a couple things at the store on the fly. No paying for a bag. and they fold up to nothing in your pocket.

Welcome back to the good old days. We were Right all along.

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Sakuya — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 12:36:46 GMT

I remember the switch. I didn't understand why plastic was supposed to be better and I was very young.

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JoyFilled Warrior — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:06 GMT

@hkrgrl wrote:
YUP,
we went from paper for everything: shopping, butcher, lunchmeat (waxed)
to plastic for everything, now going back to paper.

AMAZon said the paper used to stuff boxes is coming from 100% recycled content, so that a good thing!

they need to come up with better ways to recycle what we use from soup to nuts!!

we have 2 old TV's that we can't get rid of, trash or recycle. still looking of how to dispose of. wrote to House Rep, no reply.

township will take for $40 each!! i am sorry, i pay for trash yearly, sewer rent yearly and all my other taxes to boot. no i am not giving my township $80 to dispose of tv's.

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Hi @hkrgrl

Does your City/County/BBB offer "Shred It Days?" Often those kind of days offered, take personal papers that they Shred, but they also take Paint, Batteries, TV, Puters, etc. Good Luck!

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gardenman — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 14:11:29 GMT

@Sakuya wrote:
I remember the switch. I didn't understand why plastic was supposed to be better and I was very young.

The paper bag/plastic bag argument largely came down to preference. For me, plastic was far better. The handles let you carry more than one bag at a time. Paper bags would typically need to be supported from the bottom. Try to carry one from the top and the bag would often tear and the bag and contents would hit the ground. Paper bags also had issues with moisture. Rain or a wet item in the bag could lead to the bag turning to mush in your hands. Plastic bags were viewed as better for the environment initially as they could be recycled or used to dispose of dog/cat waste and no trees were cut down to make the bags.

Most major stores using plastic bags had recycling bins where you could drop them off and then they'd be turned into things like Trex decking for your porch or deck or other recycled products. Paper bags were often not recycled by many communities where newspaper and cardboard were the only paperstock they'd accept for recycling. You could either compost them or throw them away. They weren't very usable for pet waste, garbage, or the like. You'd tend to use some other plastic bag lying around (bread wrapper for example) for those issues.

A few months before NJ's ban went into place, I bought twelve reusable plastic bags from Amazon. They've been great. Each one holds fifty pounds of stuff and they're about as thin and lightweight as the old disposable bags. I wasn't sure how well they'd hold up, but so far, so good.