It’s very likely that if you look around right now, you’ll see at least a few plastic items nearby. (Unless you enjoy reading Bored Panda in the serenity of a forest or some other place yet unspoiled by a human’s touch.) That is because nowadays plastic is everywhere around us, from gadgets to school supplies, decor items, and furniture, among many other things. As a matter of fact, we use it so much that global plastic consumption has increased six-fold since the 1980s.

We put our food in plastic boxes, things in plastic bags, even cover ourselves with plastic if need be (a poncho on a rainy day can surely come in handy). While these plastic items can be reusable, some can’t; and to make matters worse, they might also be completely unnecessary. Today, we have listed pictures of some of the most excruciatingly useless plastic packaging, which you can find below; but beware, they might make you reasonably upset with where the world is headed.

#1 Why Is The Ocean Filling Up With Plastic?

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#2 HelloFresh Packed 5 Cloves Of Garlic Separately In 5 Plastic Bags

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#3 Individually Wrapped Peppers That Are Used For Salad And Pre-Cut Into 1/4s Just To Have To Be Cut Again Into Smaller Pieces

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#4 Saw Somebody Post A Pic Of Plastic-Wrapped Potatoes. I Raise To You, Plastic-Wrapped Coconuts

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#5 Ordered 20 Iron Nails. They Came Individually Packed In Plastic

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#6 Costco Anti-Wrinkle Abomination

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#7 Ordered A Replacement Bolt From Trek, This Is The Amount Of Packaging It Came In

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#8 Disposable Masks In Styrofoam And Plastic Wrap For $1 Only

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#9 We Ordered Two Paint Pens From Staples

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#10 If Only Nature Would Find A Way To Cover These Tomatoes So We Wouldn't Waste So Much Plastic On Them

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#11 Plastic Packaging For A CD Disk, But Without A CD Disk In It

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#12 Fruits That Are Already Protected Naturally, Wrapped In Plastic

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#13 Anti-Plastic Book Wrapped In Said Plastic

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#14 Coles Need To Get It Together. A "New" Pointless Plastic Product. 5 Individual Plastic Bottles Wrapped In Plastic

We can recycle as much as we like, but as long as corporations don't change, we don't stand a chance. This planet is doomed.

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#15 Packaging For Pre-Peeled Bananas

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#16 The Amount Of Packaging Required For Me To Buy The Additional Equipment I Need To Use My iPhone

All of this would have come in the phone’s box five years ago, but Apple decided to stop including them to cut down on packaging and waste.

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#17 The Amount Of Packaging Amazon Used For A Single Box Of Brita Filters

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#18 Individually Wrapped Gummy Bears

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#19 This Is How They Send My Contacts. Every. Year

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#20 Just Why

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#21 Why Is There So Much Packaging For A Single Claritin? Isn't This Wasteful?

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#22 This Is How We’re Suffocating The Earth In Plastic

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#23 Ordered 5 Nail Polishes From Amazon

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#24 Even My Toddlers Were Like "Father, This Seems Rather Egregious For Three Plastic Boards You Ordered At The Same Time From Amazon"

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#25 Why So Much Plastic

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#26 These Peeled Avocados Are Wrapped In Plastic

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#27 This Needlessly Large Packaging For A 20 Mm Sized Micro SD Card

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#28 14 Pieces Of Unnecessary Packaging And "Freebies" For A Tiny 15 Ml Spray From Paco Rabanne

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#29 I Ordered 20 Books And All Arrived Individually Packaged. 3 Are Still Missing

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#30 A Very Special Tomato I Guess

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#31 This Aluminum Can Comes Wrapped In Plastic

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#32 Seen At Target - 2 Apple Slices X 6 Plastic Bags, In A Plastic Box

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#33 Individually Wrapped Lemon Slices

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#34 Hundreds Of Single, Overpriced, Individually Wrapped And Stickered, For $2 Each At Coles… Just What Struggling Families Need This Easter (More At Entry And Counters Too)

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#35 The Amount Of Unnecessary Plastic That This Toy Package Has

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#36 Such A Waste Of Plastic

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#37 This Adapter Package

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#38 Why Does This Garlic Have A Plastic Wrapper?

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#39 All Of This For One Purse (Cat For Scale)

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#40 Individually Packed Olives My Roommate Bought

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#41 Hello Fresh Sent My Carrots For One Meal In 8 Separately Sealed Plastic Bags

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#42 My School Started An Eco-Friendly Project By Giving Out Apples To Students

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#43 Hypocrites At Sobeys Grocery Store In Halifax, Nova Scotia

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#44 Costco Sells A Tiny Sachet Of Saffron In A Bulk-Sized Spice Container

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#45 Xfinity Was Giving Away Reusable Straws At An Art Fest. The Straw Is Wrapped In Plastic, Then Put In A Cheap Velvet Pouch, Then Wrapped In Plastic Again. Way To Save The Environment Xfinity

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#46 Ordered 150 Washers. This Is How They Were Packaged

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#47 Reusable Bag... Sold Inside Styrofoam Tray And Plastic Wrap

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#48 My Chef Saved $2.50/300 Units If They Come Individually Wrapped. So I Spent The First Hour Of My Shift Unwrapping Them

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#49 Not Only Is It Egregious, But It's Infuriating

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#50 The Marshmallows In This Bag Come Individually Wrapped

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#51 These "Save Our Planet" Cups Are Individually Sealed In Plastic At Our Hotel

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#52 This Is How I Received My New Sim Card In The Mail

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#53 My Eco-Friendly Packaged Toothpicks Are Individually Wrapped In Plastic

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#54 Every Wrapper Holds Three Smaller Wrappers That Each Contain 6 Individually Wrapped Candies

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#55 Individually Wrapped Vegetables In A Vietnamese Supermarket

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#56 The Amount Of Plastic Wasted On The Packaging Of This Knife

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#57 Am I Crazy For Thinking This Is Ridiculous?

And before anyone says “produce goes in little plastic bags anyway” - this particular market’s bags are all biodegradable and offer only paper bags at checkout counters.