Food for thought

So I got thirsty and went to grab an apple juice box. I never realized how much plastic covered the apple juice boxes. These apple juice boxed came in a case of five in a huge cardboard box. So my household buys them in bulk. I still can’t figure out if buying in bulk or in single packages is more efficient. Anyways, this apple juice is made by Sun-Ripe products in Kelowna BC, so in terms of distance, transportation is not a major issue with fossil fuels.

Ingredients: apple juice made from fresh apples and vitamin C.

My main concern in this case is the wrapping of the packages, straw wrappers, straws, and the creation of the juice boxes. In this case I think the boxes have been wrapped in secondary packaging since the plastic wraps several cases of juice. Packaging processes take alot of energy and machinery to complete the task and I would consider this as the most biggest fossil fuel absorber in this case. The machinery requires maximum energy supply to support the packaging production.  Also another issue with this juice box and the environment is that there seems to be unnecessary waste such as the plastic straw and wrappers. But it is also important to remember that the actual box can be recycled.