{"id":359,"date":"2012-10-09T12:38:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T17:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/?p=359"},"modified":"2013-07-07T15:08:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T20:08:23","slug":"new-nomination-for-the-wrongest-product-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"New nomination for the Wrongest Product Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Wrongest Product Awards will go to those products (and their designers) that embody the least amount of redeeming value while incurring the use of unnecessary, often gratuitous, materials or energy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How is this relevant to EcoOptimism, you might ask? Easy \u2013 it shows how extraneous so many products are, often in a \u201cwhat-were-they-thinking\u201d sense.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nominations are open.<\/em><em> Send yours to ImNotBuyinIt (at) EcoOptimism.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/?page_id=693\"><em>Previous Wrongest Product Award nominations<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the problem isn\u2019t so much the product as the packaging.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/?attachment_id=360\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-360\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"360\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/?attachment_id=360\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bananas.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"430,292\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bananas\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bananas-300x203.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bananas.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-360\" title=\"bananas\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bananas.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bananas.jpg 430w, https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bananas-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If bananas could talk, they might be saying \u201cI went to all this trouble to make a perfectly good biodegradable wrapper &#8212; at no charge &#8212; and this is the thanks I get?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the Austrian supermarket chain selling these has been shamed into apologizing and re-clothing the bananas.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austriantimes.at\/news\/General_News\/2012-09-19\/44253\/Peeled_bananas_offered_by_common_sense_supermarket\">Austrian Times<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5945306\/pre+peeled-re+wrapped-bananas-are-the-most-wasteful-sign-of-the-apocalypse-yet\">Gizmodo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/?page_id=693\"><em>Previous Wrongest Product Award nominations<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20New%20nomination%20for%20the%20Wrongest%20Product%20Awards&body=https%3A%2F%2Fecooptimism.com%2F%3Fp%3D359&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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