A counterpoint from first time this was going around, tagline: Who the heck needs this? People with disabilities say they do. Turns out a surprising number of disabilities (and just advanced aging) are detrimental to physical dexterity in ways that make peeling an orange really hard.
I think letting people buy what they find helpful rather than deciding for them is a better way of choosing what uses of resources are a waste and which ones are worthwhile convenience, and it’s kind of sad that Twitter judgements and snark succeeded in getting the product stopped.
We can always tax raw resource usage if we want to reduce it.
Thinking a bit about this. Surely cheaper / more efficient to wrap them in waxed paper, pull tap to make opening just as easy?
Would wax paper survive shipping as well? Would it maintain freshness as well?
I mean, clearly it would create less waste – if nothing else, waste that is easier to pack into a small space. But still.
Wax paper would definitely not protect them when handling (shipping is not a problem; they make them locally at the store by peeling oranges and packaging them in the boxes). Oranges are squishy and soft, they need something like their normal peels, or a hard-ish box. The best improvement to this I could easily name would be using water-soluble plastic so it doesn’t become an environmental issue; everything else seems to be quite solid.
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Skins aren’t impervious to rot, I think.
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