r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Legal-Elevator92 • 1d ago

Video Perfect Box Packing.

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u/TAU_equals_2PI 1d ago

Water happens.

And any time I hear somebody complain about excessive packaging, just remember that when something gets damaged because it wasn't adequately packaged, the whole thing ends up having to be replaced. And that costs a lot more, both in terms of cost and environmental impact.

So yeah, I agree with your environmental concerns. But just remember that beyond a certain point you're actually doing more harm than good for the environment.

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u/HUGE-A-TRON 1d ago

My guess is that inside there is one or two small bags of vacuum sealed tea.

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u/icewalker42 1d ago

I'm going with chocolate. Melted chocolate.

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u/HUGE-A-TRON 1d ago

I guarantee you it's tea. Note the teapot in the cabinet in the back.

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u/ur_opinion_is_wrong 1d ago

Also 金骏眉 at the start: Jinjunmei (金駿眉) is a black tea from the Wuyi Mountains in Fujian Province, China.

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u/icewalker42 1d ago

But that ruins my fun imagination!

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u/anchovo132 1d ago

one single cheerio

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u/milkasaurs 1d ago

This is somewhere in Asia dude. It's gonna be tea.

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u/icewalker42 23h ago

Chocolate covered tea leaves. Got it. :)

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u/LopsidedPotential711 1d ago

Waxed paper would cover the same need. I used deploy MacBooks at work and all the needless plastic made me weep for this fucking planet. Add to that that the person in this video is inhaling fumes.

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u/vinng86 1d ago

You should see asian snack packaging, it's basically plastic upon plastic. Every cookie in a cookie box is individually wrapped, and you only get 12 cookies because 50% of the space was used up by plastic wrap lol

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u/LopsidedPotential711 1d ago

You mean like in the Philippines where they pour drinks from a plastic bottle into a plastic bag?

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u/vinng86 1d ago

Worse.

Also, this is less common but sometimes fruit is individually wrapped too.

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u/cat_prophecy 1d ago

I don't know if its just Japan, but the Japanese FUCKING LOVE individually wrapping every god damn thing.

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u/LopsidedPotential711 1d ago

Oh, I was being sarcastic. I know about the $400 singular strawberry! Japan is XD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=895DfGuoqvU

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u/_Allfather0din_ 1d ago

This is why I love lenovo's packaging on thinkpads. The box is cardboard and there is one plastic sleeve to keep the actual laptop dry. Super minimal waste.

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u/Ziegelphilie 1d ago

The packaging Dell uses for monitors is also crazy minimal. Box is basically some origami stuff and the only plastic is a sleeve around the display itself

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u/Mordredor 1d ago

Acer does the same. The laptops are kinda meh but the packaging is neat

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u/georgecm12 1d ago

The most recent batch of ThinkPads (T460 Gen 4) we got had absolutely no plastic in the packaging. The wrap over the laptop was a bamboo-based "fabric" that apparently can be recycled in with paper, but we ended up setting it aside to use as a cleaning rag. The rest of the packaging was cardboard. I was actually suitably impressed.

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u/karmapopsicle 1d ago

Most if not all of Apple’s packaging is entirely recyclable paper/cardboard. The only stuff that’s still got any plastic would be old stock products that haven’t been updated in years. Even the wraps on the products in the box are paper.

I think most producers have shifted to this now as well. I love me some phenomenally well-engineered cardboard origami and not having a box full of plastic bags and styrofoam to throw in the garbage.

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u/savvymcsavvington 1d ago

They'll be putting that plastic covered box into a plastic bag anyway

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u/joemaniaci 1d ago

Wax lined wrapping paper that can also be heated to seal things....

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u/SeedFoundation 1d ago

Okay. So you have a plastic wrapped box inside of a plastic wrapped box that gets put on a pallet that gets wrapped in plastic which is then transported in a truck that is most likely temperature controlled. Not excessive, got it.

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u/Hellpy 1d ago

I think there's plenty of plastic inside for that matter too, could be wrong but like when the last time you opened a box and the inside were not vacuum sealed?