{"id":10996,"date":"2012-02-27T09:44:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T15:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10996"},"modified":"2012-02-27T09:44:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T15:44:24","slug":"a-bag-too-clever-by-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/27\/a-bag-too-clever-by-half\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bag Too Clever By Half"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Puma “Clever Little Bag” side-by-side with a traditional shoebox:<\/p>\n

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The text on the Clever Little Bag reads:<\/p>\n

CLEVER LITTLE BAG<\/p>\n

Well it’s smarter than an old fashioned shoebox because it uses 65% less paper. Even better, it means you don’t need an extra carrier bag and you can use it over and over again. Clever huh? Follow the Puma eco-table reuse this bag.<\/p>\n

www.puma.com\/cleverlittlebag<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All the grammar errors are indigenous to the bag itself. Apparently, it will also save 40 billion commas and 100 million hyphens to protect the environment.<\/p>\n

So. This clever little bag will protect the environment, how?<\/p>\n

Instead of a fully biodegradable or fully recycleable cardboard box, we have half a cardboard box and a reusable bag. A reusable bag that’s about the size of a children’s shoe shoebox that I can use perpetually as a carrier bag. Is that what I need? Let me run down the reusable bags I have already: Book bags from every library I’ve ever befriended, a tote bag from the company that buried my mother, little cloth bags that contained linens or something, and a laptop bag. Guess which of these I use. Just one.<\/p>\n

No, I have no use for a bag of this size. It’ll probably go right into the garbage can.<\/p>\n

Whereas one of those demonic cardboard shoeboxes, when they’re not being recycled or breaking down quickly in a landfill, are excellent storage boxes for mementos from lovers past or gee-gaws of a certain size. I mean, really, who ever gets rid of a shoebox?<\/p>\n

I think Puma has outsmarted itself in its quest to have a nice story to tell the environmentally conscious, which is to say, semi-conscious, amongst us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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