{"id":1270,"date":"2011-05-28T09:12:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T14:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitstep.net\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2011-05-28T09:12:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T14:12:49","slug":"excess-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/28\/excess-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Excess packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently ordered some extra Sanyo eneloop batteries when they were on sale at Dell. They&#8217;re great rechargeables, but I don&#8217;t know why most packages always come with a charger &#8211; I now have three of them from previous purchases.<\/p>\n<p>However, when I received the package from Dell, I was surprised at the size. It came in a huge 18&#8243;x13&#8243; bubble envelope:<\/p>\n<p class=\"image\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/stygiansonic\/9947217\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/9947217_eefd83418b_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Dell packaging\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought it was just excess shipping packaging, but opening the enveloped made it clear that the packaging was only just big enough to hold the actual item:<\/p>\n<p class=\"image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/stygiansonic\/9947222\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/9947222_75aaefa95e_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Huge eneloop package\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/stygiansonic\/9947226\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/9947226_b2fa56a4f3_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Green packaging?\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For batteries with packaging that seems to imply they&#8217;re good for the environment, you think they would have made the packaging a little less excessive. The packaging is still 100% recyclable, but it still costs energy to make it.<\/p>\n<p>At least Dell didn&#8217;t put the already-large item in a huge shipping box.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently ordered some extra Sanyo eneloop batteries when they were on sale at Dell. They&#8217;re great rechargeables, but I don&#8217;t know why most packages always come with a charger &#8211; I now have three of them from previous purchases. However, when I received the package from Dell, I was surprised at the size. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55],"tags":[384,442,385],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}