TreeHugger "Waste of Packaging Contest": Enter and Win!
by Sean Fisher, Cincinnati, Ohio 
on 02. 8.06
Enter TreeHugger's "Waste of Packaging" Contest by Monday, February 20th, and you could win a $250 gift certificate from our friends at re:modern! All you need to do is send us a picture and description of any item that you think is overpackaged and untreehugger. Find something at the store, on the street, or in your home - we don't care where you find it, just that you do find it. Once you have come up with your "waste of packaging", we want to hear how you would make it better. Tell us what is wrong, and what we should be done to fix it. Email the picture, description, and solution to: contest [at] treehugger [dot] com by the 20th of February and you might walk away with some great re:modern furnishings, so get those entries in!
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I'd like to comment about at least one field where packaging is suprisingly treehugger (although the products themselves might not be): camping, outdoors, sport equipment, etc.
I guess this is more of a commercial thing though - seeing what you get, feeling what you get, but most of the items I own (tent, pack, stove, sleeping bag, hiking sticks, thermal clothing) have usually been tagged (which you keep - it's your warranty), or were on display in reusable packaging (stuff bags, etc).
It's a nice contrast with e.g. a toy store (outdoor equipment is just toys for adults, right?), where everything is so obscenely over packaged.