{"id":153,"date":"2004-02-15T18:06:10","date_gmt":"2004-02-15T22:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2008-09-27T19:29:35","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T23:29:35","slug":"dear-mr-sandisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/15\/dear-mr-sandisk\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Mr SanDisk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just bought one of your <a href=\"http:\/\/sandisk.com\/\">SanDisk<\/a> 256MB CF cards today. Now I&#8217;m a big guy, and of at least average strength, but how on earth are we supposed to open your packaging? Ultrasonically welded plastic is almost impossible to open. After several minutes of fighting with it, I ended up having to snip very carefully along the bottom edge, and shake the contents out.<\/p>\n<p>Your packaging is also an environmental horror. The 43\u00c3\u201436mm CF card comes in a snug little polypropylene (maybe, or perhaps HDPE) case\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d inside a double-layer 127\u00c3\u2014200mm <strong>PVC<\/strong> envelope. That&#8217;s an unnecessary amount of <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.greenpeace.org\/majordomo\/index-press-releases\/1997\/msg00100.html\">the worst plastic for the environment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I do like your products, but if in future I can find an alternative with less irksome packaging, I shall use them instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just bought one of your SanDisk 256MB CF cards today. Now I&#8217;m a big guy, and of at least average strength, but how on earth are we supposed to open your packaging? Ultrasonically welded plastic is almost impossible to open. After several minutes of fighting with it, I ended up having to snip very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1392,1391],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-packaging","tag-sandisk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-2t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3919,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/3919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}