In poor imitation of Shakespeare, a tree by any other name would still have branches.
Seeking brief shelter this afternoon from the blaze of the afternoon sun, I thought about foliage and all the different “shades” of green upon which one might reflect. But green is green–unless one is color-blind, of course.
Planting a tree is a very good way to help clean the air, given all the trees we have felled to build and box.
Modern products seem to require a great deal of packaging, these days. Or do they?
So many carbon-based products–plastics–are used in modern packaging to make the product more “attractive” on the shelf, as if we could not choose between products without such packaging.
Of course, it’s what’s inside the package that is most important. “Branding” does not work if the content of the brand continues to change. I’ve noticed that happening with some of my formerly-favorite brands.
Do marketeers really think we cannot tell the difference between a package and what is inside?
Fortunately, most packaging can be recycled. However, plastics require more processing than those derived from paper and cardboard. Metals are more difficult to recycle as well.
A number of products currently packaged in “tin cans” can be packaged in wax-coated papers that require much less recycling as well.
Of course, companies must have access to the manufacturing equipment that can fashion such products.
Whatever we can do to reduce our dependence on “big oil” the better for all of us.
Now is as good a time as any to be green. It is our “free choice” to recycle, regardless of what the marketeers do with the “outside” packaging.
