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We’re long past the point where climate change has started to impact our planet. Natural disasters are happening more frequently, the Earth is warming, and many of us are desperate to do whatever we can to reduce our carbon footprints. So why in the world are companies still using excessive amounts of plastic and packaging when selling their products?

Bored Panda has scoured the internet and found some of the most egregious examples of wasteful packaging on items and gathered them below. Try not to become too infuriated while scrolling through this list, pandas, and please, keep these images in mind before placing any unnecessary orders online!

#1 No Words For This

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#2 Wanna Sample A Blueberry?

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#3 Introducing @carrefourbelgium ‘S Cutting Edge Way Not To Save The World. For Forks Sake

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#4 Wasteful Weston

Shared with permission from a buddy of mine. looks like they opened a PC water case and repackaged it to sell in 3 packs? no clue how much they priced them at but it better not be for the “839” that they’re all stickered with.

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#5 My Package Included A Free Box Of Air

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#6 My Amazon Order. Good Thing I Didn’t Order Two. Good Thing I Didn’t Order Two

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#7 Individually Wrapped Plastic Straws

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#8 One Haribo In An Entire Packet

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#9 Stupidly Wasteful Amazon Shipping

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#10 Hmm, Waitroseandpartners Haven’t Used This Plastic Very Sparsley

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#11 Saw This At My Local Supermarket, Those Caviar Cans Are Very Fragile, I Guess

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#12 This Huge Box That Target Shipped My 2 Small Items In Instead Of Using A Paper Bag

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#13 Ordered 5 Plates Online. They Came In 5 Giant Packages

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#14 Received A Package From Home Depot That Just Had One Marker. I Didn’t Order Anything From Home Depot

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#15 This Pretty Small Magnet Was Shipped With So Much Styrofoam

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#16 The Amount Of Waste In The Packaging Of These Pills

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#17 Oh If Only Coconuts Had A Hard, Resistant Shell So They Didn’t Need Plastic Wrapping

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#18 I Hate These Stupid Plastic Tabs You Find On Clothing. All Of This From One Pack Of Socks

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#19 These Individually Plastic Wrapped Plates That My Workplace Keeps

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#20 A Mistifier Sprays Its Mist Over Food, All Of Which Are Covered In Plastic

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#21 So Much Waste Of Space

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#22 If Only Nature Would Find A Way To Cover This Coconut So We Didn’t Need To Waste So Much Plastic On It

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#23 Because Individual Sweet Potatoes Need To Be Wrapped In Plastic…

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#24 How Wasteful Costcos Packaging Is

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#25 I Love Your Products Drperricone But Please Sort Out The Wasteful Packaging

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#26 Letter To Her Majesty, Queen Lizzie: All We Want Tissue

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#27 Package Is Getting Bad. You Ordered Ear Drops For Your Dog And End Up With Something Like This

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#28 4 Individually Packaged Nuts

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#29 I Present To You, A Single Slice Of Bread Wrapped In Plastic

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#30 I Ordered Three Tea Boxes From Amazon. This Is How They Packed It. Wtf. Why Are We So Wasteful

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#31 I Ordered A Small Sample Bottle Of A New Cologne And This Is The Box It Was Sent In

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#32 And This Is Why I Stopped Ordering Meal Boxes!

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#33 Is This A Joke? Why Did You Need Four Plastic Bags To Wrap This One Item

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#34 Someone At Amazon Gives Zero F–Ks

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#35 We’re Individually Wrapping Olives Now

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#36 Why On Earth Do We Need Individually Wrapped Potatoes!?

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#37 I Bought A 20pk Of Bamboo Straws To Reduce The Plastic I Use. They Were Shipped In A Box With Bubble Wrap. And Each Straw Is Wrapped With A Piece Of Plastic That’s As Big As My Hand

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#38 I Needed To Spend $1 More At IKEA To Get Free Shipping, So I Got This 99 Cent Roll Of Wrapping Paper. It Shipped In Its Own Box

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#39 Way Too Much Wasted Space For Eight Cartridges

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#40 The Box My Razor Blades Came In. Talk About Recycling To Save The Planet

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#41 This Is The Size Of The Box They Sent My 1 Christmas Ornament In

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#42 Is This Amount Of Packing Material Really Justified For This Small Order? Or Should There Be A Way To Consolidate Packing?

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#43 Dear Amazon Please Explain Why You Need All This Packaging To Send Us Little Label?

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#44 Why Not Just Buy A Fresh Watermelon?

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#45 Replacing The Egg Shell With More Plastic To Go Into The Ocean

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#46 Packaging For One Small Ntc Resistor (Red Circle) By Conrad (German Electronics Distributor). Ordered Into Their Shop No Less

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#47 Packaging By Byredo

Check out this absurd packaging for an order I got from BYREDO… are they a high end perfumery or the Easter Bunny? Also the box is way too massive for these three things. I had to dig around in the paper shavings for far too long. It was like a needle in a haystack. They need a smaller box and to ditch the paper shavings.

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#48 This Shipment From Wayfair For Two Cotton Oven Mitts

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#49 Toothbrush Refills

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#50 Ridiculous. At Least I Have A Box To Put All The Other Boxes Into

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#51 Is Amazon Getting Worse With Overpackaging? I Ordered A Pressure Washer Wand. What You See Sticking Out Is All That Is In This Box

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#52 Insane Packaging To Product Ratio

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#53 Overpackaging?

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#54 All I Wanted Was A Screen Protector

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#55 Nice Packaging Job From Amazon

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#56 This Candy Store Has Individually Wrapped Jelly Beans

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#57 I Really Expected This Ice Cream To Be Bigger When You Put It In So Much Plastic

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#58 Plastic Straws Aren’t The Problem. This Much Plastic For A 960 Piece Off Brand LEGO Set

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#59 So I Ordered A Mousepad

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#60 No Words

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#61 My Mom Ordered A “Small Address Book” From Amazon. It Is 2″ X 3″ And This Is The Box It Was Delivered In

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#62 Ordered 3 Shot Glasses From The Same Site. Got Delivered In 3 Separate Boxes. Ordered Them Off Of Fanatics, Came In Large Wasteful Packaging

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#63 So Much Waste

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#64 Imo No Toy Should Ever Produce This Much Waste

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#65 Prescription Refill. The Pharmacy Sent Me A 30 Day Supply

This is so annoying. I’m not sure why my doctor did 30 days supply with 12 refills. This is a new doctor, and my previous would have done 90 days supply with four refills.
Still, this is ridiculous. Getting these pills out is a pain with the narrower neck, and the bottle is simply too big. Plenty of waste here that isn’t necessary.