My husband bought a saline nasal spray to use on the airplane the other day. I opened the box of NeilMed NasoGel Spray so that he could pack the nasal spray and was astounded by all of the packaging.
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| Who would guess that inside this box there is a hermetically sealed bottle along with enough paper to create a piñata? |
The nasal spray was not particularly big, perhaps a few inches high and an inch wide, but the box that it came in was much bigger. I don't even understand why it was in a box, because the nasal spray was completely sealed in plastic all the way around it's bottle and nozzle and cap.
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| So much extra space at the top of the box. |
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| Why is this box so big? |
Inside the box there was not one, but three enclosures. There was a big English pamphlet with various ads for the company's products, a French language ad pamphlet (these are both glossy and colourful and quite thick), and a sheet of coupons for other products made by the same company, but not a coupon for the product that one just purchased (so I would think less likely to be used).
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| Nasal spray, box, and a pile of different enclosures. |
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| English and French versions of voluminous advertising and some coupons. All highly coloured and glossy. |
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| Both ad books were this thick. Why is there so much paper? |
I didn't get a shot of the plastic wrap that came off of of the bottle, because my husband took it off on the plane, but that's packaging too. Why was this item even put in a box? There is an exception that allows companies to use excessive packaging to prevent shoplifting, but honestly if everyone used that exception, the world would be filled to the brim with packaging, since criminals will steal whatever they have the will and desire to steal, regardless of size. NeilMed NasoGel Spray is definitely a prime example of overpackaging.
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