Would you pay extra knowing that an item's packaging is eco friendly?

Answer 1

I do now.

We have one of the most comprehensive curbside recycling program in the world in Edmonton. Yet, the best way to recycle is not to use it at all. I select products not just on what's in the packaging, but also on the package itself.

I package my own herbal products. It costs me about a dollar for bottles, about 50 cents for plastic, etc, and I include that in my retail price. I have to, or I'd be paying them to take my product home.

You are paying for the entire product when you purchase an item, including the package. Not only is it your choice to send a message to the manufacturer that you prefer eco-friendly, but you are also entirely responsible for that packaging. It's yours. Same as your car or razor blade or anything else you buy. And the harm that comes from it's manufacture, or disposal, is your responsiblity as well. If some bird dies because you didn't cut up the rings on your six-pack, that's your fault. Same as if you ran into it with your car.

You're not renting the packaging and then after using the product, passing it onto some misterious memory hole... You're buying it. By rights, you should keep every last scrap of it in your own home like every other thing you purchase, rather than paying someone to shove it into someone else's back yard. THEN we'll see how much you push for low or eco-packaging.

We have limited resources on this planet. Why on earth would you encourage ppl to spend them on creating a pretty package, and not save them for a useful product?

Vote with your dollars. It's one of the only vote that counts, anyways...

Answer 2

you have to be careful about deceptive advertising. the packaging may be "eco-friendly", but if it had to be shipped across the country, how "eco- friendly" is it. you need to consider all of the embodied energy in a product. that includes the energy from the procurement of raw materials, production processes, distribution, etc.
a case in point, that is in the news these days, is ethanol. whereas it may indeed reduce our dependence on foreign oil, it requires more energy to refine than petroleum based fuels. the huge agri-businesses like Monsanto or Archer Daniels Midland, don't want to bring attention to this because they're able to drive up corn prices, which in turn drives up the cost of raising livestock. so we've done nothing to reduce emissions, and the cost of cornflakes and hamburgers just went up. but it's all being touted as the "green" thing to do, and it won't benefit our environment at all.
so, to answer your question, would i pay extra?, i think we're already paying extra.
that having been said, i would encourage everyone to reduce, reuse, and recycle. it WILL make a difference, and you must BE the change that you wish to see in the world.

Answer 3

for those that are condeming human beings as ignorant boobs that basically think of roughly money, I say attempt questioning outdoors of your guy or woman little international. in case you have the money, do it. The econominc certainty for a lot of human beings is that one greater $.50 according to kit over the path of a 300 and sixty 5 days provides as much as a large form of extra money. those human beings interior the decrease quintiles of the financial ladder purely don't have the money to pay greater advantageous. Comdemning peoples judgements without even attempting to understand their circumstances smacks of elitism and is purely the approach that turns a lot of human beings off to the so-called environmental flow.

Answer 4

If The Pakage itself was self-proclaimes eco friendly .... NO cause im a sceptic but if it was proven that such and such a comopany used eco friendly packaging

of-course

i eman if everyone would guive a little effort maybe our world would be a better place to live but it's filled with ignorants who dont want to help the change

and people who think well why do it my individual contribution doesnt count.....

i mean common everyone get togheter and help our home

Answer 5

No. By the time whatever is going to happen to our planet because we use too much styrofoam and don't recycle actually happens, I'll be long gone. So will my kids, grand kids, great grand kids, great great grandkids, etc. Unless EVERYONE on this planet recycles, it won't make a difference.

Answer 6

definitely yes!
another thing i do is bring my own reusable shopping bags to the store. you can also return your plastic bags to the store for recycling. i think it's great that san fran wants to ban all plastic shopping bags.

Answer 7

No.

why? I am going to throw it away anyhows.
Yep, straight in the dumpster.

Answer 8

No there is already too many hidden additional charges on items we buy.

Answer 9

No, I don't make enough money to have those kinds of choices

Answer 10

I may if the extra is not too much.