It looks like the cool thing to do now is bash HP over its environmental record. Yesterday’s Greepeace action was a huge story for several minutes, drawing attention, apparently, to the company’s rubbish record with respect to various chemicals in its products. And today The Register has photos of shipping containers, used to ship things.
The implication is that HP is being wasteful, shipping tiny little nicknacks in huge, bulbous boxes.
When I bought The Beckham Experience from Amazon, it shipped in like an envelope (as opposed to a box). I noted, very quickly, “Oh, this is new, it’s not a box.” Then I moved on.
My hunch is that if we’re going to single out HP for being whatever, then we should be prepared to hate on damn near every company.
Nic, turn around. You just missed the point.
Isn’t it possible that it’s cheaper for these companies to use large packaging than carrying multiple lines of packaging just for the smaller ones? I mean, if that is true, then who are we to blame them? Corporations are in the business to make money, and when they realize that less packaging results in less cost, they will switch and be better for the environment at the same time as saving money.
Meh. Who cares. There are bigger fish to fry at the moment, this is just being nit-picky. Lets make big deals out of the big things, and small deals out of the small things.