Photos That Show Just How Much Plastic We Contribute To The End Of The World

Our world has gone seriously crazy.

Kailee

• Published in Interesting
• June 1, 2018

There are more than eight million tonnes of plastic going into the oceans each and every year, and it is estimated that there will be more plastic than fish by the year, with 99% of all seabirds on the planet having consumed some. 

Alas, while being toxic and hazardous, the cheap and malleable product has proven extremely useful to humans. In fact, since the 1950s humans have produced approximately 8.3million metric tonnes of plastic. 

We do acknowledge that a lot of the world are starting to wake up to the problem. Unfortunately, though, some are getting even crazier with their plastic-wrapping habits. Read on below for some of the wackiest and completely wasteful uses of plastic that we have ever seen.

It's official - we're going bananas.

Have you ever seen produce first unwrapped, and then packaged up like this in the store?

Or this?

I CANNOT EVEN DEAL WITH THIS! Three different layers encasing a single orange. An orange, with a peel.

Most produce has what is called a peel. It acts as a perfectly natural form of packaging to protect the fruit.

Just because we can do it, doesn't mean we should.

This is completely unnecessary.

IT HAS A PEEL!

Apparently, the floating pile of plastic in the ocean is about twice the size of Texas. So how about we lay off the shrink-wrapping OF OUR GOD DAMN APPLES!

Plastic. On a tuna can. A CAN.

Individual sugar cubes, wrapped specially for your single use.

You know things are bad when your can of Coke is wrapped.

Here we see a giant box of Tic Tacs filled with smaller boxes of Tic Tacs.

100% compostable coffee pods are a step in the right direction, however, they completely missed the mark by wrapping them in non-recyclable plastic.

This USB is probably one-thirtieth of the size of this plastic packaging.

Individually wrapped plastic straws in a bigger plastic packet.

Individually wrapped toilet rolls, for your convenience (or lack thereof, depending on how badly you need it).

A disk case for your virus software, sans-disk.

And the best for last. I'm sure we've all received one of these packages at least once in our lives. Instead of insulating it with hundreds of plastic poppers, just ship it in a smaller box. Please.

Kailee