Packaging has gone to ludicrous lengths these days. Quite often, if you buy something quite ordinary or utilitarian, a pair of scissors, for example, it comes wrapped in ultra thick plastic which has been shaped to fit the objects outline and is almost impossible to get at without... a pair of scissors. The same goes for some food packaging, though we try and avoid food like that when shopping. Some bottles and jars are sealed so hermetically - for good reasons I know - that they're almost impossible to open sometimes.

God knows how people with a poor grip cope when trying to unpackage these things.

Some years ago, our village was one of the first in the UK to go plastic-bag free, after a campaign involving local shop owners. Alas, as shops have changed hands over the years, they (the bags) have made an unwelcome return and we have to start all over again...