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? Image credits: Ac_50 #2 HelloFresh Packed 5 Cloves Of Garlic Separately In 5 Plastic Bags Image credits: Ok-Instruction-9586 #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 Image credits: 6packobeer #4 Saw Somebody Post A Pic Of Plastic-Wrapped Potatoes. I Raise To You, Plastic-Wrapped Coconuts Image credits: b1g_tun4 #5 Ordered 20 Iron Nails. They Came Individually Packed In Plastic Image credits: Zornhauhesus #6 Costco Anti-Wrinkle Abomination Image credits: geeroseworld #7 Ordered A Replacement Bolt From Trek, This Is The Amount Of Packaging It Came In Image credits: FormerCrow97 #8 Disposable Masks In Styrofoam And Plastic Wrap For $1 Only Image credits: wackodindon #9 We Ordered Two Paint Pens From Staples Image credits: Vytian #10 If Only Nature Would Find A Way To Cover These Tomatoes So We Wouldn't Waste So Much Plastic On Them Image credits: satanfan12 #11 Plastic Packaging For A CD Disk, But Without A CD Disk In It Image credits: britishtacox #12 Fruits That Are Already Protected Naturally, Wrapped In Plastic Image credits: xNeech #13 Anti-Plastic Book Wrapped In Said Plastic Image credits: Qudufy_Duck #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. Image credits: JJGLC92 #15 Packaging For Pre-Peeled Bananas Image credits: Bubbleteade #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. Image credits: BeckburyWolf #17 The Amount Of Packaging Amazon Used For A Single Box Of Brita Filters Image credits: halfbean #18 Individually Wrapped Gummy Bears Image credits: OniTale #19 This Is How They Send My Contacts. Every. Year Image credits: dankenport #20 Just Why Image credits: SirBreadSticks #21 Why Is There So Much Packaging For A Single Claritin? Isn't This Wasteful? Image credits: Dana-Mite #22 This Is How We’re Suffocating The Earth In Plastic Image credits: StonePineJack #23 Ordered 5 Nail Polishes From Amazon Image credits: 22trenchcoats #24 Even My Toddlers Were Like "Father, This Seems Rather Egregious For Three Plastic Boards You Ordered At The Same Time From Amazon" Image credits: kevin0611 #25 Why So Much Plastic Image credits: CookieMod #26 These Peeled Avocados Are Wrapped In Plastic Image credits: averhaegen #27 This Needlessly Large Packaging For A 20 Mm Sized Micro SD Card Image credits: GuardingxCross #28 14 Pieces Of Unnecessary Packaging And "Freebies" For A Tiny 15 Ml Spray From Paco Rabanne Image credits: bobtwells #29 I Ordered 20 Books And All Arrived Individually Packaged. 3 Are Still Missing Image credits: ArchSyker #30 A Very Special Tomato I Guess Image credits: FreelanceNursePH #31 This Aluminum Can Comes Wrapped In Plastic Image credits: Celtic-Bhoy #32 Seen At Target - 2 Apple Slices X 6 Plastic Bags, In A Plastic Box Image credits: Lance_stole_my_blood #33 Individually Wrapped Lemon Slices Image credits: andreayenchen #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) Image credits: jaayjeee #35 The Amount Of Unnecessary Plastic That This Toy Package Has Image credits: Carbohydrate838 #36 Such A Waste Of Plastic Image credits: Alexii2 #37 This Adapter Package Image credits: lennuh #38 Why Does This Garlic Have A Plastic Wrapper? Image credits: jibclash #39 All Of This For One Purse (Cat For Scale) Image credits: Almond_Roses #40 Individually Packed Olives My Roommate Bought Image credits: Fit-Consideration299 #41 Hello Fresh Sent My Carrots For One Meal In 8 Separately Sealed Plastic Bags Image credits: dweber618 #42 My School Started An Eco-Friendly Project By Giving Out Apples To Students Image credits: BunKuro #43 Hypocrites At Sobeys Grocery Store In Halifax, Nova Scotia Image credits: houseoffools11 #44 Costco Sells A Tiny Sachet Of Saffron In A Bulk-Sized Spice Container Image credits: illBelief #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 Image credits: ikiru71 #46 Ordered 150 Washers. This Is How They Were Packaged Image credits: CoolBeansCook #47 Reusable Bag... Sold Inside Styrofoam Tray And Plastic Wrap Image credits: nitra #48 My Chef Saved $2.50/300 Units If They Come Individually Wrapped. So I Spent The First Hour Of My Shift Unwrapping Them Image credits: DarthSkat #49 Not Only Is It Egregious, But It's Infuriating Image credits: LosPenguiinos #50 The Marshmallows In This Bag Come Individually Wrapped Image credits: A_Talking_iPod #51 These "Save Our Planet" Cups Are Individually Sealed In Plastic At Our Hotel Image credits: Arial7 #52 This Is How I Received My New Sim Card In The Mail Image credits: Humanius #53 My Eco-Friendly Packaged Toothpicks Are Individually Wrapped In Plastic Image credits: Wind-wheel #54 Every Wrapper Holds Three Smaller Wrappers That Each Contain 6 Individually Wrapped Candies Image credits: Dispari_Scuro #55 Individually Wrapped Vegetables In A Vietnamese Supermarket Image credits: Spencerzone #56 The Amount Of Plastic Wasted On The Packaging Of This Knife Image credits: Danegler #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. Image credits: idyemyeyebrowsblack_ #58 The Box And What It Was Used For. Ordered From An Ink Supplier Image credits: SomeKindaMonstur #59 Bananas Now Need Packaging It Seems Image credits: jigsaw153 #60 If Only Oranges Came With Their Own Protective Packaging So We Didn't Have To Use Plastic Image credits: c08306834 #61 Picked Up An Order From Walmart That Had 50 Items. Every Single Item Came In Its Own Plastic Bag No Matter Its Size Image credits: aussielover24 #62 The Amount Of Plastic Bubble Packaging Amazon Used To Ship Me Padded Envelopes Image credits: Kbaker48 #63 Why? For What Reason? To What Possible Advantage? Image credits: derek139 #64 Every Utensil Individually Wrapped When They’re Just Gonna Be Washed Before Use Anyways Image credits: reddit.com #65 Sliced Onions In Plastic Packaging Image credits: Joma1009 #66 My Friend Bought A Writing Glove Online. It Could've Fit In An Envelope. But No, Let's Put It In A Box That Could Fit A Small TV Image credits: TheOneFlanimal #67 Plastic-Wrapped Drinks At My Local Grocery Store Image credits: CollarDifficult3932 #68 Yeah, Definitely Needed Two Separate Boxes Image credits: reddit.com #69 Must Have Been Out Of Envelopes Image credits: mhenning #70 Bought A Box On Amazon, And It Came Delivered In A Box, Which Was Also In A Box Image credits: GollySvenGolly #71 This Store Individually Wraps Eggplants In Plastic Image credits: The_Cheese108 #72 The Cafeteria At My Job Just Started Packaging All The Fruit Image credits: Imaginary-Cricket903 #73 I’m So Glad That My Fragile Gloves That I Ordered With Something Else Came With Padding Image credits: The_Tran_Dynasty #74 If Only Oranges Came Into Naturally Crafted Packaging Image credits: Spigaw #75 Ordered 27 Books From Amazon In A Single Order. Got 27 Boxes With 1 Book Each Delivered Image credits: sousaj #76 My Daughter Got An American Girl Kitchen For Christmas. 40+ Pieces All Individually Wrapped In Non-Biodegradable Plastic Image credits: StewartsObscenity #77 My Father Ordered 15 Fence Posts… Legends Tell Of A Second Truck, Out There Somewhere Going To Deliver The Last One Image credits: reddit.com #78 Purchased A Year's Worth Of Zinc Tablets Online. To My Surprise, I Got 6 Bottles Instead Of 1. These Pills Must Be Pretty Big, I Thought Well... No. The bottles were 90% empty. All 360 tablets fit in a single bottle. What a waste. Image credits: reddit.com #79 The Amount Of Packaging For One Of These Image credits: Steveo131 #80 Some Sort Of Chip My Coworker Received Image credits: Shaldoz #81 This Is Why Our Planet Is Collapsing Image credits: GreenerDay #82 My Reusable Metal Straws Came Individually Wrapped In Plastic Image credits: reddit.com #83 Two Sleeves Of Pills Came In The Box Of 10 Image credits: jmfb8878 #84 All This Plastic For Just 5 Toothbrush Heads Image credits: howtheeffdidigethere #85 Biodegradable Coffee Pods Come In Individually Wrapped Plastic Image credits: lucv825 #86 To "Package Thoughtfully" And "Reduce Impact" Image credits: Aquillyne #87 This Box Of Swedish Fish Has Everything Individually Wrapped In Plastic Image credits: Butterboy657123 87 Unnecessary Packaging Fails That Got Shamed Online

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?

Image credits: Ac_50

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

Image credits: Ok-Instruction-9586

#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

Image credits: 6packobeer

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

Image credits: b1g_tun4

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

Image credits: Zornhauhesus

#6 Costco Anti-Wrinkle Abomination

Image credits: geeroseworld

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

Image credits: FormerCrow97

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

Image credits: wackodindon

#9 We Ordered Two Paint Pens From Staples

Image credits: Vytian

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

Image credits: satanfan12

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

Image credits: britishtacox

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

Image credits: xNeech

#13 Anti-Plastic Book Wrapped In Said Plastic

Image credits: Qudufy_Duck

#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.

Image credits: JJGLC92

#15 Packaging For Pre-Peeled Bananas

Image credits: Bubbleteade

#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.

Image credits: BeckburyWolf

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

Image credits: halfbean

#18 Individually Wrapped Gummy Bears

Image credits: OniTale

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

Image credits: dankenport

#20 Just Why

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

Image credits: Dana-Mite

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

Image credits: StonePineJack

#23 Ordered 5 Nail Polishes From Amazon

Image credits: 22trenchcoats

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

Image credits: kevin0611

#25 Why So Much Plastic

Image credits: CookieMod

#26 These Peeled Avocados Are Wrapped In Plastic

Image credits: averhaegen

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

Image credits: GuardingxCross

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

Image credits: bobtwells

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

Image credits: ArchSyker

#30 A Very Special Tomato I Guess

Image credits: FreelanceNursePH

#31 This Aluminum Can Comes Wrapped In Plastic

Image credits: Celtic-Bhoy

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

Image credits: Lance_stole_my_blood

#33 Individually Wrapped Lemon Slices

Image credits: andreayenchen

#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)

Image credits: jaayjeee

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

Image credits: Carbohydrate838

#36 Such A Waste Of Plastic

Image credits: Alexii2

#37 This Adapter Package

Image credits: lennuh

#38 Why Does This Garlic Have A Plastic Wrapper?

Image credits: jibclash

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

Image credits: Almond_Roses

#40 Individually Packed Olives My Roommate Bought

Image credits: Fit-Consideration299

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

Image credits: dweber618

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

Image credits: BunKuro

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

Image credits: houseoffools11

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

Image credits: illBelief

#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

Image credits: ikiru71

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

Image credits: CoolBeansCook

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

Image credits: nitra

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

Image credits: DarthSkat

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

Image credits: LosPenguiinos

#50 The Marshmallows In This Bag Come Individually Wrapped

Image credits: A_Talking_iPod

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

Image credits: Arial7

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

Image credits: Humanius

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

Image credits: Wind-wheel

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

Image credits: Dispari_Scuro

#55 Individually Wrapped Vegetables In A Vietnamese Supermarket

Image credits: Spencerzone

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

Image credits: Danegler

#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.

Image credits: idyemyeyebrowsblack_

#58 The Box And What It Was Used For. Ordered From An Ink Supplier

Image credits: SomeKindaMonstur

#59 Bananas Now Need Packaging It Seems

Image credits: jigsaw153

#60 If Only Oranges Came With Their Own Protective Packaging So We Didn't Have To Use Plastic

Image credits: c08306834

#61 Picked Up An Order From Walmart That Had 50 Items. Every Single Item Came In Its Own Plastic Bag No Matter Its Size

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#62 The Amount Of Plastic Bubble Packaging Amazon Used To Ship Me Padded Envelopes

Image credits: Kbaker48

#63 Why? For What Reason? To What Possible Advantage?

Image credits: derek139

#64 Every Utensil Individually Wrapped When They’re Just Gonna Be Washed Before Use Anyways

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#65 Sliced Onions In Plastic Packaging

Image credits: Joma1009

#66 My Friend Bought A Writing Glove Online. It Could've Fit In An Envelope. But No, Let's Put It In A Box That Could Fit A Small TV

Image credits: TheOneFlanimal

#67 Plastic-Wrapped Drinks At My Local Grocery Store

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#68 Yeah, Definitely Needed Two Separate Boxes

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#69 Must Have Been Out Of Envelopes

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#70 Bought A Box On Amazon, And It Came Delivered In A Box, Which Was Also In A Box

Image credits: GollySvenGolly

#71 This Store Individually Wraps Eggplants In Plastic

Image credits: The_Cheese108

#72 The Cafeteria At My Job Just Started Packaging All The Fruit

Image credits: Imaginary-Cricket903

#73 I’m So Glad That My Fragile Gloves That I Ordered With Something Else Came With Padding

Image credits: The_Tran_Dynasty

#74 If Only Oranges Came Into Naturally Crafted Packaging

Image credits: Spigaw

#75 Ordered 27 Books From Amazon In A Single Order. Got 27 Boxes With 1 Book Each Delivered

Image credits: sousaj

#76 My Daughter Got An American Girl Kitchen For Christmas. 40+ Pieces All Individually Wrapped In Non-Biodegradable Plastic

Image credits: StewartsObscenity

#77 My Father Ordered 15 Fence Posts… Legends Tell Of A Second Truck, Out There Somewhere Going To Deliver The Last One

Image credits: reddit.com

#78 Purchased A Year's Worth Of Zinc Tablets Online. To My Surprise, I Got 6 Bottles Instead Of 1. These Pills Must Be Pretty Big, I Thought

Well... No. The bottles were 90% empty. All 360 tablets fit in a single bottle. What a waste.

Image credits: reddit.com

#79 The Amount Of Packaging For One Of These

Image credits: Steveo131

#80 Some Sort Of Chip My Coworker Received

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#81 This Is Why Our Planet Is Collapsing

Image credits: GreenerDay

#82 My Reusable Metal Straws Came Individually Wrapped In Plastic

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#83 Two Sleeves Of Pills Came In The Box Of 10

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#84 All This Plastic For Just 5 Toothbrush Heads

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#85 Biodegradable Coffee Pods Come In Individually Wrapped Plastic

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#86 To "Package Thoughtfully" And "Reduce Impact"

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#87 This Box Of Swedish Fish Has Everything Individually Wrapped In Plastic

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