Joshua Herzig-Marx

I love ordering from Newegg, but I hate the peanuts they use for packing material. If you’re not careful (and lucky) they escape from the box, make a mess, and the cats start eating them. They’re also a pain to dispose. Garbage bags are never large enough and they don’t open wide enough to prevent spillage. We end up re-taping the box and placing it out at the curb.

Here’s my brilliant idea: a large plastic bag–with a huge mouth and a drawstring closure–should be folded and affixed to the top of every shipping box. Inside, outside, doesn’t matter where. Bonus points if both the peanuts and the bag are made from some kind of biodegradable plant-based plastic.