Archive:000/Draft:Packaging

Packaging is needed for food and non-food products alike. Even in a world without marketing, packaging is still needed to protect products from damage. In this way, there is a tradeoff between packaging waste and food waste(...)( as well as waste of consumer goods due to damages ).

TODO: status quo stats:

• how much packaging is thrown out every day
• how much of all packaging is plastic
• list all the negative environmental effects of disposible plastic
  • is there any way to prevent it from ending up in the ocean?

TODO: talk about overpackaging

• examples and alternatives
• estimate if possible: what percent of all packaging could be avoided if those alternatives were implemented in general

TODO: explore the possibility of converting biomass waste to packaging

• is there enough supply of it?
  • what if we grew less crops due to reducing food waste and animal husbandry - would there still be enough supply for packaging?
    • compare scenarios 'status quo' and 'less overpackaging' if the earlier estimate was available
• is it technically feasable?
  • could all biomass waste be converted into packaging? Or only some of it? Estimate the percentage?
  • what are the ways? industrial processes? mushroom culture? etc - what are their yields(...)( expressed in terms of output.mass / input.mass )?