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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am increasingly annoyed with the plastic packaging of everything. That seems like an easy fix and doesn't even demand that people change what they want to own or use. Like, why put a winter jacket inside a plastic bag to ship it? It's just lazy reliance. [/quote]

Amen to that.

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It's because of rodent and clothes mite damage from the factory to your home. This is actually one of the rare places where plastic might be useful, as long as garments are mass produced. Your clothes are perhaps more traveled than you. The fabric is produced in one place, cut in another, the garment is assembled elsewhere, finished in another place, and by the time it comes to your door it's been around the world. Meanwhile, rodents exist in all factories and shipping containers, and poop every 15 minutes. Studies were made that found a tiny amount of rodent excrement dust in all packaged cereal, for example. Clothes mites can ruin woollens in a day.

So. Unless you're buying from a seamstress who makes your clothes by hand in her own home, you might want that plastic bag.
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If this is true, we need to buy fewer clothes[/quote]

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