they are not just targeting boardgames, but all packages, and the boardgame boxes are also not what is being regulated, but the packaging the box is shipped in.
The box is shipped in a box, as is everything. Whether it's being shipped to a store or to a home, it's going to come down to cardboard. One of the least environmentally problematic materials there is. Trees planted just to be cut down for paper. The paper can be buried in a landfill or ground up to become the box insulation in my meal kit, or, possibly more boxes. If there were a lot less paper use, there'd be fewer tree farms planted. It's not automatically a problem just because it's packaging.
Whatever nonsense the EU thinks it's going to achieve by forcing each individual to file paperwork with every member state accounting for his personal contribution to all boxes used, is stupid. If they have to (which they really don't), they should bill the end consumer, who is in a single country, for the cardboard one consumes. At least a person lives in one single country, and thus doesn't have to deal with every EU country. After all, a game company who produces and ships 1,000 copies of their game, isn't 100 times more environmentally irresponsible than a game company that produces 10. They're just more successful.
But a person who orders 100 boxes of merchandise a year is the one creating 10 times more waste than the person who orders 10.
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they are not just targeting boardgames, but all packages, and the boardgame boxes are also not what is being regulated, but the packaging the box is shipped in.
The box is shipped in a box, as is everything. Whether it's being shipped to a store or to a home, it's going to come down to cardboard. One of the least environmentally problematic materials there is. Trees planted just to be cut down for paper. The paper can be buried in a landfill or ground up to become the box insulation in my meal kit, or, possibly more boxes. If there were a lot less paper use, there'd be fewer tree farms planted. It's not automatically a problem just because it's packaging.
Whatever nonsense the EU thinks it's going to achieve by forcing each individual to file paperwork with every member state accounting for his personal contribution to all boxes used, is stupid. If they have to (which they really don't), they should bill the end consumer, who is in a single country, for the cardboard one consumes. At least a person lives in one single country, and thus doesn't have to deal with every EU country. After all, a game company who produces and ships 1,000 copies of their game, isn't 100 times more environmentally irresponsible than a game company that produces 10. They're just more successful.
But a person who orders 100 boxes of merchandise a year is the one creating 10 times more waste than the person who orders 10.