Dontcha Just Love Plastic Packaging?.

[Lon]

Damn---I am still fussing around trying to open up this package of batteries without slashing a finger or two.

 

[jujube]

Years ago my daughter tried to open a plastic package by stabbing it with a knife. Four hours of microsurgery and extensive therapy later, she has an index finger that won't fully extend or fully clench.

 

[SeaBreeze]

That hard plastic bubble wrap is hard to break into sometimes, I use a large pair of scissors for some packages, safer than a sharp knife.

 

[Don M.]

Packaging is getting more and more "robust"....probably to slow down the shoplifters. A pair of scissors is generally the best, and safest way to open some of these packages.

 

[terry123]

I keep a pair of scissors in every room these days as it seems plastics are harder to get into. Battery packages are tough.

 

[Lon]

These batteries are in a very hard plastic covering that can't be cut with scissors.

 

[Roadwarrior]

Now that China is refusing to buy our plastic waste you can save space in your recycling. Just go throw them in the Pacific, that's where it'll end up anyway.

I think that the manufacturer's should pay to have them disposed of, maybe they will rethink using plastic for packaging.


I bought all my adult family members one of these for stocking stuffer a few years back, I still have mine use it often

 

[Toomuchstuff]

Hahahaha ....... the ad on the top of my page is for plastic containers .....

 

[Falcon]

I bought a pair of really tough kitchen scissors which will cut through almost any package, especially those hard plastic ones.

 

[helenbacque]

The plastic container will easily outlive whatever it contains. Lifespan of:

water bottle - 450 years
Disposable diaper - 500 years
plastic 6-pk. collar - 450 years
extruded polystrene foam - 5,000+ years

http://www.goecopure.com/lifespan-of-plastic.aspx

 

[fmdog44]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HubZInAs0-A

Check this out for laughs from Larry David

 

[Ruthanne]

I can't stand the thick plastic packaging. I use the scissors to cut things out of them.

 

[Robusta]

I can't stand the thick plastic packaging. I use the scissors to cut things out of them.

We keep a pair of aircraft metal snips in the junk drawer just for this purpose.

 

[RadishRose]

Scissors

 

[Olivia]

Little box cutters have always worked for me. Cuts through tough plastic very easily. And pretty safe, too.
Scissors take a lot more work, and are hard on the hands.

 

[Sunny]

Those plastic bubble packages should be outlawed.

 

[Manatee]

Sharp scissors work for me.

 

[HipGnosis]

I read somewhere that a hand crank can opener can be used to open hard plastic packaging. But I couldn't get it to work, so I use my kitchen scissors.

 

[CeeCee]

 

[Falcon]

Aircraft metal snips and the hand cranked can opener are both excellent ideas. Thanx Guys.

 

[Butterfly]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HubZInAs0-A

Check this out for laughs from Larry David

Larry David looks and acts just like my chiropractor!

 

[Sunny]

That's how your chiropractor handles your body?! Ye gads!

 

[RadishRose]

Larry David looks and acts just like my chiropractor!

It's so true about that gd packaging!

 

[JaniceM]

Damn---I am still fussing around trying to open up this package of batteries without slashing a finger or two.

Absolutely. A person shouldn't need tools, or risk injury, just to open something they purchased.
The first example that came to mind: decades ago, those large heavy-plastic things that cassette tapes were sold in. I can't recall anything recent, but it's pesky for sure.

 

[fmdog44]

Fire has worked wonders for billions of years