Green Game Packaging - Paper or Plastic? [Aug 30, 2008, 12:09 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Wal-Mart promotes green gaming has word that the retail giant has met with
representatives of Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo to discuss making console
gaming more environmentally friendly. Topics included giving system lower power
standby modes, and the possibility of reversing the recent evolution to plastic
game packaging by returning to paper and cardboard packaging, with Wal-Mart
saying that would reduce the industry's carbon footprint by the equivalent of
taking 4000 cars off the road.
Actually paper bags are worse than plastic bags. It all goes in the landfill (unless you recycle in which case it doesn't matter) and landfills are designed NOT to let stuff biodegrade. There are garbage excavations they've done into landfills which dig up readable newspapers from 50 years ago.
That being the case, plastic takes up less VOLUME than paper bags, so we can have more room in a landfill, thus plastic is better.
I imagine similar arguments could be made about game packaging.
That being the case, plastic takes up less VOLUME than paper bags, so we can have more room in a landfill, thus plastic is better.
I imagine similar arguments could be made about game packaging.
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