What is 'zero-waste packaging'?

What is 'zero-waste packaging'?

Zero-waste is packaging that breaks down in the landfills or produces no waste. An example of zero-waste packaging is going into a store and buying a product that isn't heavily packaged. So, what you'll find is many retailers, even Toys-R-Us, are actually bringing in the toys without the cardboard, without the fancy items, and they're put in very special bins. You'll go inside and say " I'd like to have that toy", you buy it and it doesn't have any packaging; it's zero-waste. They're just testing this now so it would be like going to buy an action figure you don't have a fifteen page brochure, you don't have a back card, you don't have a clam shell to put this little guy in. You can actually go and buy that loose action figure, and they're just testing this out now. Zero-waste packaging is also when you are going to buy a product that the packaged item produces no waste, so you are seeing a lot of corn-based polymer wraps in consumer products so you can actually take this wrapping and put it in the organic waste and it will breakdown in the landfill.