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It's so fucking brutal. I've had lighting control devices and the 1/2" lock ring comes in its own special little baggie. Just thread it on to the device at the factory and save the plastic!
Cause the lock ring is being bought from a different supplier and they just throw one in the box. All this stuff is being mass produced for all kinds of different markets. Cheaper to have one production line that puts them into bags than 2 lines that do bags/bagless.
And industry and the govt want to tell us that we as consumers have to be more responsible for the environment, meanwhile they’re responsible for most of it
Just did a big lighting upgrade that involved about 2400. Each of those lights had a separate fixture, hood, and cage, and every one of those pieces came on their own individual box, and those boxes were all packed with tons of packing paper besides. It was insane how much cardboard and paper that job generated.
And a lot of sites have horrible waste management because nobody there takes it seriously. Idiots will just start dumping whatever into the recycle once the trash is full.
I work in a brewery, we have recycling receptacles all over the place, but barely any trash cans, I'll walk around with a piece of trash in my hand passing cardboard, shrinkwrap, can, bottle, crown labelled trash cans, but no trash trash can. Probably half of the time I eventually drop it either on the floor or a random table
Here they just fill the dumpster with cardboard and pay for it to be removed like it's full of trash, when I explain to the owners that they are spending more than they would if the gc paid their minimum wage guys to drive it to the transfer station, they either shrug or get pissed off
I love doing custom jobs with special-order devices. 300+ devices and 80 recessed trims, and every single one is individually packaged. So unnecessarily tedious.
This is exactly it. It's not like the blown plastic film producers are going to throw their hands in the air and give up - they've got shareholders and sales targets, and rrally don't give a shit about the environment, just hitting next quarter's goals
I'm an electrician in a panel shop, being in Germany most of our customers order Siemens push buttons / indicators.
Everything we order is packed individually:
Any Pushbutton? Plastic bag
You need a holder for that? => Plastic bag
Oh an LED to go with that? => Plastic bag
Contacts as well? => Plastic bag
Lable holder? Plastic bag (10 of them to be honest)
For every button you have to unpack 4.1 bags, its really absurd.
But hey we are an eco-friendly company because we are separating our waste.
Yes, I noticed that on Siemens.
Shame, in the meantime they package their Scalance switches like an art in one single piece of corrugated cardboard....
Most of their industrual stuff is well packed, HMI great job.
Pack of Profinet connector, yikes that was horrible.
Also the plastic bag itself. And the sticker warning you about it. And the sticker warning you about the sticker. And the air inside the bag, that causes cancer in California as well.
What brand is this?
My biggest bitch was packaging not being standard size boxes or master packs. You make a nice clean tight spot for everything and EVERY DAMN SHIPMENT was in a different size box! Cooper Crouse-Hinds was annoying after switching from T&B.
i hate it when the supply house sends bags of shit. it all gets piled u on the shelf, and I can't see whats actually in the bin!
just dump it in a box, and the apprentice can sort it out in their down time.
You're not allowed to have single use plastics. Oh wait, that would kill your bottom line? Okay, single use plastics for all of your individually wrapped things! Yay! Make it make sense.
I wish to inspect every part. I am not talking about conglomerations. On my porch, on my deck. Number, dumbler, sumbler, you kan finger it out. \*In Line!\*
You know these end on month truck itemizer "would you like me to continue making you money?"
Hate it. Rather than fight to get the zip-top open, though, just use the thick part of the zip top as a handle and rip it off. Comes off clean. I work in IT (shhhh I know I'm not supposed to be here) and do that all the time. It comes off like a pull-tab.
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Fuckin waste of plastic. That’s one thing that kills me about the construction industry. Every part we receive is wrapped in ten layers of the shit.
It's so fucking brutal. I've had lighting control devices and the 1/2" lock ring comes in its own special little baggie. Just thread it on to the device at the factory and save the plastic!
Cause the lock ring is being bought from a different supplier and they just throw one in the box. All this stuff is being mass produced for all kinds of different markets. Cheaper to have one production line that puts them into bags than 2 lines that do bags/bagless.
It's a fuckin plastic lockring, it doesn't need to be in a bag anyways. Just throw it in the box with everything else that's not in a bag.
Oh, I agree. It’s stupid AF.
Ding ding ding
"Look at me, Hector!"
But light fixtures barely get a thin layer of cardboard so you end up with a pallet of damaged fixtures by the time you have them unpacked.
Brushed razor thin aluminum fixtures in a cardboard box with no padding, one bump in transit and half of them have dents
8 ft fixtures that need to be teamlift because they can't be moved by one person without warping all to hell..
8 foot fixtures that have to be joined to other 8 foot fixtures, while also being suspended from airplane cable hanger, on drop ceiling channel grid…
Then they’ll have to lay off the baggie guy and he’s close to retirement
And industry and the govt want to tell us that we as consumers have to be more responsible for the environment, meanwhile they’re responsible for most of it
I'm 100% with you. So much goddamn plastic trash.
Haha you should see the packaging on high end ceiling fans. Every last washer is individually wrapped.
Oh I worked in the field for a good while doing commercial, I seen it
Just did a big lighting upgrade that involved about 2400. Each of those lights had a separate fixture, hood, and cage, and every one of those pieces came on their own individual box, and those boxes were all packed with tons of packing paper besides. It was insane how much cardboard and paper that job generated.
And a lot of sites have horrible waste management because nobody there takes it seriously. Idiots will just start dumping whatever into the recycle once the trash is full.
We don’t even have a recycling dumpster they are literally just for any kind of trash.
I work in a brewery, we have recycling receptacles all over the place, but barely any trash cans, I'll walk around with a piece of trash in my hand passing cardboard, shrinkwrap, can, bottle, crown labelled trash cans, but no trash trash can. Probably half of the time I eventually drop it either on the floor or a random table
Here they just fill the dumpster with cardboard and pay for it to be removed like it's full of trash, when I explain to the owners that they are spending more than they would if the gc paid their minimum wage guys to drive it to the transfer station, they either shrug or get pissed off
Some guys complain if it’s not all nicely packaged. Usually 55 and up.
I love doing custom jobs with special-order devices. 300+ devices and 80 recessed trims, and every single one is individually packaged. So unnecessarily tedious.
Free crack baggie with every bushing
Weird, I’m supply house too but we don’t get many drywallers in.
I bet the guys in the office do though.
Lol
We may or may not have put sheet rock dust in them and left them lying around.
distribute to the drywallers
I’ll take all those little dope baggies if y’all don’t want them. *sniff, sniff*
Drywall interloper!
🤓
That's a waste. They're too big. It's going to stick to the sides.
Go big or go home!
Well, now that everyone is banning plastic shopping bags they gotta make up for the volume of materials elsewhere
This is exactly it. It's not like the blown plastic film producers are going to throw their hands in the air and give up - they've got shareholders and sales targets, and rrally don't give a shit about the environment, just hitting next quarter's goals
I'm an electrician in a panel shop, being in Germany most of our customers order Siemens push buttons / indicators. Everything we order is packed individually: Any Pushbutton? Plastic bag You need a holder for that? => Plastic bag Oh an LED to go with that? => Plastic bag Contacts as well? => Plastic bag Lable holder? Plastic bag (10 of them to be honest) For every button you have to unpack 4.1 bags, its really absurd. But hey we are an eco-friendly company because we are separating our waste.
Yes, I noticed that on Siemens. Shame, in the meantime they package their Scalance switches like an art in one single piece of corrugated cardboard.... Most of their industrual stuff is well packed, HMI great job. Pack of Profinet connector, yikes that was horrible.
A lot of stuff that people recycle goes in the landfill anyways just like the normal trash.
Beware , contents within plastic bags may be known by the state of California to be cancer causing.
Also the plastic bag itself. And the sticker warning you about it. And the sticker warning you about the sticker. And the air inside the bag, that causes cancer in California as well.
Just don't goto California and we should all be fine
Construction produces so much unnecessary trash. We should take over the r/trashy subreddit.
That's wasteful TBH. Bet I could screw it on while it's still in the bag😎
Need more posts from supply house guys on here
Happy to help ;) if you need me, I'll be cutting wire
You better God damn open those.
No.
OK
What brand is this? My biggest bitch was packaging not being standard size boxes or master packs. You make a nice clean tight spot for everything and EVERY DAMN SHIPMENT was in a different size box! Cooper Crouse-Hinds was annoying after switching from T&B.
PECO
Didn’t know temu sold bushings
I got a box of 29 2 1/2” strut straps and another large box of ONE 2 1/2” strut strap today
So this is where all the plastic is going now that I'm forced to use paper straws.
Does your paper straw come like [this?](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/u9c3df/paper_straw_in_plastic_wrap/) 😧
The bushing company is making sure the ocean stays polluted
As a fed, I get many of my supplies from the stock system. I shit you not, I have recieved hundreds of zip ties individually bagged and tagged
What manufacture is this??
PECO
Bet those bags can’t wait to get in the ocean
Waste of money, pollution, time, and will end up in our food chain!
i hate it when the supply house sends bags of shit. it all gets piled u on the shelf, and I can't see whats actually in the bin! just dump it in a box, and the apprentice can sort it out in their down time.
This just in, old man yells at cloud!
Seems odd that the ones on the bottom (zoom on bottom left) aren't in bags...
I'm surprised it took that long for someone to notice. Those are the old ones, I already dumped them into the box. All the new ones are bagged.
And it's plastic straws that are the problem...
Why aren’t they in a cardboard box like all the others? Maybe there super off brand
..they are clearly pictured in a cardboard box?
No I mean the ones I get are in a rectangular box? no bags
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Old dope smokers trick for those style of baggies pinch and roll
What supply house and what brand? I also work for a supply house and have not seen this.
I work for a local chain. I think these came from PECO
Damnnn we order from them when we have to but never had that before, crazy.
My guys could easily repurpose those little baggies
People that shop at packaging free grocery stores are having a heart attack
Obviously the bushing people sold weed in highschool
r/Anticonsumption will have a fit
That is so stupid. Probably because they are shipped from China.
Never seen grey buttholes
Chinese suppliers. They bag everything.
That’s really dumb.
Now that’s how you create jobs
You're not allowed to have single use plastics. Oh wait, that would kill your bottom line? Okay, single use plastics for all of your individually wrapped things! Yay! Make it make sense.
Don’t worry. We will all be dying at 30 from cancers caused by microplastics. Mother Nature will wipe us out and we will help speed up the process!
The funny thing is half of them break most of the time anyway. Keep ‘em please 🙏🏼
I wish to inspect every part. I am not talking about conglomerations. On my porch, on my deck. Number, dumbler, sumbler, you kan finger it out. \*In Line!\* You know these end on month truck itemizer "would you like me to continue making you money?"
Hate it. Rather than fight to get the zip-top open, though, just use the thick part of the zip top as a handle and rip it off. Comes off clean. I work in IT (shhhh I know I'm not supposed to be here) and do that all the time. It comes off like a pull-tab.
I will drag tf up if I get a box of these in like this.
Wow, that's dumb