15. Packaging:

List all portable items you purchase or otherwise handle each day, and the packaging they came in. This will take some imagination. For example, you handle textbooks each day – they came to you in a bag with advertising cards; you get your mail, some useful, some junk – count the useful vs. junk; you listen to your MP3 player, you call on your cell phone – did you get it in a box, or in a clear plastic package with cardboard/Styrofoam insert? Did your lunch come in a Styrene or Styrofoam box? Or wrapped in paper that was then put in a bag? Reflect on your list. How much energy and water went into producing this packaging? Is it sustainable? Do you make sustainable choices when shopping for your products?

Phone.
Mp3 Player.
Xbox.
Computer.
Books.
Action Figures.
Gun.
Swords.
Cool shoes.
Guitar.

Upon research into the packaging used on these products, they use about 100000 watts of energy to produce, and about 200 lbs of water. The packaging of my Mp3 player is actually made out of a newly discovered element, Detoxomine Theobromide. It has been discovered that at least 90% of the global production industrial complex use Detoxomine Theobromide in their products, and even worse, they burn 700 tons of the chemical every day in order to produce more of the element.


Upon further research I found out that this miracle element's atomic variance has the slowest half life of any known element. Wow! Once disposed of, this element will be left to decay for over 9,000 years. This element is extremely hard to get rid of. It can only be burned when ones lasers are fully charged and blasted into the nucleous of the element, yet upon combustion it releases toxic gasses into the thermal layer of the stratosphere. In effect, these toxic gasses then go on to calcify into acid rain. Worst of all, this acid rain has the chemical structure to turn baby duck nests into burning rubber tires.


These are not energy efficient. I tend to be lured towards products that are as least energy efficient as possible, and that is the way i like it. I mean it would take up far too much of my free time to figure out the costs of the packaging that my item comes in, I really dont think we can get Americans to think of these things. I dont want to be formulating algebraic equations in walmart to figure out which mp3 player is the most sustainable.