Reflection on Packaging Project

I think that the packaging project was really cool, it showed a lot about all the trash and packaging in our food and it was fun and effective. It's quite amazing to think about all the packaging we use, and when we think of it we don't think of that many. Do we ever think of the tiny pieces of different metals and plastic inside a cell phone, or do we think of it as a whole? Packaging is a larger problem and it is still growing. It makes up the main compartments of all landfills. The problem is that recyclable materials are being thrown away, and we are gaining unnecessary waste. We could save thousands of landfill space a year if we only recycled all the waste out there.
I thought this project was very interesting and it really showed us that this is a large problem and only looking at all the packaging that we used for our presentations I could tell that this is a large and important problem. During most of the presentations my classmates mentioned that the materials in their product could be recycled, just not in Serbia. Therefore, the fact that something is recyclable is invalid. My favorite presentation from another student was Dorotejas. She did her's on the iPhone. Basically it has a wood/cardboard box to keep it safe, with all tiny compartments and places for the iPhone to be. They really have to improve their packaging. My project, with the Gran Pavesi Olive Crackers, was all right. They didn't have as much packaging as the other materials, but they sure did waste a lot of 5PP plastic by giving each separate 5 crackers their own wrapper. They use cardboard, and 5PP plastic both for the separate wrappers and for the outer layer. That's a lot of packaging and an outer layer of 5PP wasted. However, when I did some research about the company, Gran Pavesi, it turned out that they made a line of products including the Barilla pasta, and that they don't have a website especially about the crackers. They didn't even give an email to contact them, or at least not that I found. Well, at least not in English. The same, I found it shocking that all this packaging goes into making 40 crackers.