'SUP MAN?: The Single Use Packaging Management and Narrowing Project

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What happens after you add to cart?    

    It was another normal day, locked at home with no where to go. What else better to do than open your favorite shopping app or page? There's a sale here and there with no shipping fee, how exciting! You saw so many more tempting deals on your phone, but all around you were corrugated boxes, bubble wrap, fragile stickers, plastic bags, and so much more. All were waiting to be thrown away because they were no longer of use to you.

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    Or how about this? You're a small business owner. To become more popular, you saw so many TikTok videos of other people doing the most when it comes to packaging. It has become a trend to add so many freebies and wrap the most aesthetically pleasing things around your product. This encourages you to spend, spend, and spend also on that trend. You put your whole heart into packaging that customers eventually rip open and throw once immediately received. What happens then?

 Packaging has been deemed beneficial in so many aspects. Especially in the business sector, it provides cheap but effective protection to products before these are delivered to consumers. Due to the pandemic limiting restaurant capacities, businesses and households have resorted to food delivery services and single use materials for packaging and cutlery, where most of these are instantly discarded after being used once. This has caused unnecessary waste and environmental damage in the process. Establishments must lessen utilization/production of single use packaging, reinforce reused/reusable materials, and encourage customers to practice recycling and to shop ecologically. 

 ‘SUP MAN: Single Use Packaging Management and Narrowing is a cause that promotes doing the most with the least used materials.

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                'SUP MAN? is a project that fights against the overproduction and waste of single use packaging. Here, we aim to attract businesses and consumers to eco-friendly alternatives for parcels. We are oriented to intervene in common business/consumer practices that could be improved to be more ecologically aware. Lastly, we task ourselves to manage single use packaging waste by volunteering in facilities and letting these materials go through the Three R's: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. 

                    We are a small group of volunteers who just want to make sure our needs are not ecologically affected by our wants. We cannot stop anyone from acquiring necessities for living, but we can always do something about it. Because we can do the most even if we are just the least, come join us! 

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