April 22, 2010
Save the plastic, save the planet
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on April 2010 Last up for us this month is an antidote to rampant consumerism that’s also good for the environment. Tokyo firm Start Lab has just begun selling its Eco Pack-brand blank CDs and DVDs with an emphasis on keeping that infernal packaging creep at bay. It’s not rocket science—just […]
By Metropolis
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on April 2010
Last up for us this month is an antidote to rampant consumerism that’s also good for the environment. Tokyo firm Start Lab has just begun selling its Eco Pack-brand blank CDs and DVDs with an emphasis on keeping that infernal packaging creep at bay. It’s not rocket science—just fill a box with 200 blank disks and a spindle to hold the ones you’re about to use next—but the end result is both reduced cost and less plastic to dump in the trash when all your illegal downloads are burned for posterity. Prices start at ¥6,280 for 200 of the 700MB CD-Rs and ¥8,750 for the same number of 4.7GB DVD-R disks.
