We know what a lot of you Pandas are like. You care about Mother Earth and its delicious bamboo groves, lush forests, and comfy nooks and crannies where you can nap. So you recycle. You also cycle to work instead of driving your Pandamobile. And you buy products that are more eco-friendly and use less plastic. Because every little step really does matter.
But let’s face it, if you’re like us, sometimes when you walk into a grocery store you might lose hope when you spot just how much unnecessary packaging is used to pack some food products. And by unnecessary packaging, we mean U n N e C e S s A r Y to the point that you feel all of your environmentally friendly actions suddenly mean very little when faced with systemic issues on an industrial scale.
We wanted to show you just how plastically insane things can get, so our bamboo-loving Bored Panda team hiked all through the internet wilds to bring you the most egregious examples of wasteful food packaging. Have a scroll down below, upvote the pics that made you want to throw your recycling bin at somebody, and let us know how you feel about all of this plastic waste in the comments.
#1 Ridiculously Redundant Over-Packaging
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#2 Hong Kong Supermarket Selling Individually Plastic Wrapped And Boxed Strawberry. For $21. One Strawberry
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#3 Replacing The Egg Shell With More Plastic To Go Into The Ocean
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#4 Packaged Chopped Parsley
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#5 Plastic Has To Removed From Every Single Mini Sausage Before Cooking
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#6 If Only Oranges Came With Their Own Protective Packaging So We Didn’t Have To Use Plastic
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#7 Individually Wrapped Grapes In Japan
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#8 Your Coke Needs That Plastic
Image source: Ui_Hirasawa
#9 The Three Layers Of Plastic Protection For These Oranges. How Is This Even Allowed?
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#10 Such A Waste Of Plastic
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#11 Asparagus Water???
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#12 What Can You Even Make With 1 Tomato?? The Styrofoam Bedding
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#13 I Can’t Even Imagine How Much Plastic Waste Is Just Sitting In Landfills Because Of Pointless Things Like This
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#14 Pre Peeled Bananas In Plastic. There Is So Much Wrong With This!!
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#15 Spraying Water Over Vegetables Wrapped In Plastic, Complete Waste
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#16 Looks Like Some People Are Still Grapeling With Their New Year’s Resolutions
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#17 Harry & David Strawberries
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#18 Wouldn’t It Be Nice If Fruit Like Bananas Had Their Own Natural Packaging To Help Reduce Plastic Pollution?
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#19 This Is Some Next Level Laziness
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#20 My Wife Wanted Peeled Garlic. They Peeled, Then Individually Wrapped Them
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#21 A Packaged Lemon, With The Slogan “Waste Less, Enjoy More”
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#22 My Hellofresh Meal Kit Came With 4 Individually Bagged Carrots And A Bagged Slice Of Bread
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#23 This Individually Packaged Slice Of Whole Wheat Bread
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#24 Cannot Beleaf This From M&s
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#25 If Only Bananas Had Robust, Natural, Bio-Degradable Packaging Of Their Own. Some Sort Of Peelable Skin, Perhaps
Image source: thenamenononehas
#26 It’s Getting Hot In Here, So Take Off All Your Cloves
Image source: pointless_packaging
#27 The Most Ridiculous Part About Living In Japan: Plastic Everywhere!
Image source: thesimpleenvironmentalist
#28 Individually Wrapped Gummy Bears
Image source: OniTale
#29 These Peeled Avocados Wrapped In Plastic
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#30 Individually Wrapped Peppers That Are Used For Salad And Pre Cut Into 1/4s Just To Have To Be Cut Again Into Smaller Pieces
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