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HeatherKay wrote:
Let us not forget that a good deal of the packaging these days is made from recycled materials, and can be recycled.



Except I don't recycle, so it all goes in a normal bin. When we have proper recycling bins that are regularly emptied, I may decide to recycle.


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/12/dell_packaging/

^^^I've received a pack of pens (for writing on CDs) from ebuyer in a box that size. Muppets.

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Dabs is a company that seems to use standard boxes no matter what goes inside them. I have received hat-box size packages with a single HSF inside and huge boxes that would accommodate something like a wide-screen TFT monitor all for an expansion card (that itself is excessively packaged)

At times when "recycling" is being thrown at us from all angles and there are threats from councils that they will start charging by weight for refuse collection, it really p***es me off when things are excessively packaged.

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From Play.com... I've always wanted some kind of replica of that Batmobile and now I have it ;)

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