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Amazon’s “Frustration-Free” packaging

In Design, Green on 4 November 2008 tagged amazon, packaging with Comments Off

Amazon.com have intro­duced what they’re call­ing “Frustration-Free Pack­aging”.

“The Frustration-Free Pack­age is recyc­lable and comes without excess pack­aging mater­i­als such as hard plastic clam­shell cas­ings, plastic bind­ings, and wire ties. It’s designed to be opened without the use of a box cut­ter or knife and will pro­tect your product just as well as tra­di­tional pack­aging. Products with Frustration-Free Pack­aging can fre­quently be shipped in their own boxes, without an addi­tional ship­ping box.”

I abso­lutely can­not wait for this to catch on, be intro­duced to Amazon.co.uk, and then be adop­ted by other online retail­ers. Way too much of my life has already been wasted try­ing to get flash memory out of their wel­ded plastic prisons!

Gift box from a cereal box

In Design, Green, Projects on 19 October 2008 tagged Projects, recycling with Comments Off

I’m slightly smit­ten with this idea for mak­ing gift boxes out of old cer­eal boxes.  
Instruct­able by Blight­design, via Zero Waste Blog, via Al.