• Retailers are using excessive and pointless packaging for their goods
  • Read More: Shoppers share the WORST examples of pointless packaging

By Ellen Coughlan For Mailonline

Published: 11:29 GMT, 7 December 2023 | Updated: 11:46 GMT, 7 December 2023

Many are becoming more aware of plastic waste – but that hasn’t stopped retailers from using excessive or pointless packaging for their goods.

People from around the world have shared frustrating packaging fails and Bored Panda Bored Panda collated the worst into an online gallery.

They include a store who decided to individually wrap 1/4 slices of peppers in plastic.

Meanwhile, a grocery store in Halifax, Nova Scotia, advised customers to ‘ask for their fish to be wrapped in paper’ because they ‘love their oceans’ but then sold tins of lobster wrapped in plastic.

Elsewhere Save Our Planet paper cups were individually wrapped in plastic for hotel guests.

No logic! People from around the world have shared frustrating packaging fails and Bored Panda collated the worst into an online gallery. Including 'eco friendly' toothpicks which were individually wrapped in plastic

No logic! People from around the world have shared frustrating packaging fails and Bored Panda collated the worst into an online gallery. Including ‘eco friendly’ toothpicks which were individually wrapped in plastic 

A shopper who ordered a new SIM card for their phone was baffled when it turned up enclosed in various envelops in a bigger box.

And there are few tasks that sound more tedious than needing to unwrap individually packaged toothpicks – especially when they boast of being eco friendly.  

Here FEMAIL takes a look at some of the facepalm worthy packaging fails…

Why though? A grocery store, in Hatti, sold peeled bananas in a styrofoam tray and wrapped in plastic

Why though? A grocery store, in Hatti, sold peeled bananas in a styrofoam tray and wrapped in plastic

Why though? A grocery store, in Hatti, sold peeled bananas in a styrofoam tray and wrapped in plastic

Not cheap! A store, in the US, decided to sell paper face masks individually packed in styrofoam trays and plastic for $1

Not cheap! A store, in the US, decided to sell paper face masks individually packed in styrofoam trays and plastic for $1

Not cheap! A store, in the US, decided to sell paper face masks individually packed in styrofoam trays and plastic for $1

What a waste! Gummy bears on sale in Indonesia were individually wrapped in plastic in a larger plastic bag

What a waste! Gummy bears on sale in Indonesia were individually wrapped in plastic in a larger plastic bag

What a waste! Gummy bears on sale in Indonesia were individually wrapped in plastic in a larger plastic bag

Overkill! A shopper was baffled by an excessive six pieces of packaging to deliver one mini sim card

Overkill! A shopper was baffled by an excessive six pieces of packaging to deliver one mini sim card

Overkill! A shopper was baffled by an excessive six pieces of packaging to deliver one mini sim card 

Confused: Another person ordered 20 iron nails and they arrived individually wrapped in plastic bags and placed in a box

Confused: Another person ordered 20 iron nails and they arrived individually wrapped in plastic bags and placed in a box

Confused: Another person ordered 20 iron nails and they arrived individually wrapped in plastic bags and placed in a box 

Facepalm: Elsewhere Save Our Planet paper cups were individually wrapped in plastic for hotel guests

Facepalm: Elsewhere Save Our Planet paper cups were individually wrapped in plastic for hotel guests

Facepalm: Elsewhere Save Our Planet paper cups were individually wrapped in plastic for hotel guests 

Hypocrisy: A grocery store in Halifax, Nova Scotia, asked customers to 'ask for their fish to be wrapped in paper' because they 'love their oceans' but then they sold tins of lobster wrapped in plastic

Hypocrisy: A grocery store in Halifax, Nova Scotia, asked customers to 'ask for their fish to be wrapped in paper' because they 'love their oceans' but then they sold tins of lobster wrapped in plastic

Hypocrisy: A grocery store in Halifax, Nova Scotia, asked customers to ‘ask for their fish to be wrapped in paper’ because they ‘love their oceans’ but then they sold tins of lobster wrapped in plastic

Yikes! A woman was shocked to find that the five nail varnishes she ordered arrived in seperate boxes with lots of packaging

Yikes! A woman was shocked to find that the five nail varnishes she ordered arrived in seperate boxes with lots of packaging

Yikes! A woman was shocked to find that the five nail varnishes she ordered arrived in seperate boxes with lots of packaging

Make it make sense! Another woman, in the US, was confused after her anti-wrinkle cream, which was already packaged in a box, came in a large plastic container

Make it make sense! Another woman, in the US, was confused after her anti-wrinkle cream, which was already packaged in a box, came in a large plastic container

Make it make sense! Another woman, in the US, was confused after her anti-wrinkle cream, which was already packaged in a box, came in a large plastic container 

Why? A person bought two pens and they arrived in two oversized seperate boxes filled with plastic

Why? A person bought two pens and they arrived in two oversized seperate boxes filled with plastic

Why? A person bought two pens and they arrived in two oversized seperate boxes filled with plastic 

Pointless! One store who decided to individually wrap 1/4 slices of peppers in plastic confused shoppers

Pointless! One store who decided to individually wrap 1/4 slices of peppers in plastic confused shoppers

Pointless! One store who decided to individually wrap 1/4 slices of peppers in plastic confused shoppers  

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Packaging fails that make absolutely zero sense will make you despair

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