Choking Planet explored ways that product packaging negatively affects the Earth and came up with this list of six simple things you can do to help it happen:

• Drink bottled water for bigger landfills.
• Support over-packaging.
• Get a free bag with every purchase.
• Value the package as much as the product.
• Buy products in convenient plastic containers.
• Buy “fresh” foods in wrapped packaging.

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Most people don’t think much about the pollution caused by bicycles, in fact they often think of bike riding as a “green” activity.

Consider for a moment that regular exercise can cause the human body to expel many toxins. What happens to these toxins when they are released? One might suspect that unloading human toxins into the environment could someday have a devastating impact of its own.

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Greenwash products address carbon footprint guilt, giving all the benefits of a green self-image without hampering your “in the pink pleasures.”

Similar to the notion of a self-dissolving condom, you get the peace of mind when you first decide to use it but after it desolves your real sense of pleasure isn’t dulled or hampered.

Unlike unprotected sex, with greenwash products any nasty side effects happen only after you die. It’s like your grandkids children get the disease instead of you. In a sense, greenwash products are better than risky sex, at least in personal consequences.

Savvy companies know that many humans want to do something to maintain a little piece of the planet for possible future generations. Smart companies have figured out that this desire can be dealt with verbally rather than actually. Greenwashing is the ability and practice of turning environmentally destructive products into green products with little to nothing more than a word processor and a missing or errant shame gene on the part of the manufacturer.

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Share a comment about what stuff you think will level the planet faster.

With your species’ split personality, it’s not hard to imagine why humans are the engineers of their own destruction. Here’s an insect’s view of upright mammal logic in action:

• Air conditioning cools you, by just a few degrees, yet it’s effect on global warming, will bring you to your knees.
• A group of forty-seven hundred smokers, is like one car burning a gallon of gas. The car might kill you faster but you’ll tell smokers to kiss your ass.
• You’ll recycle and process empty bottles, using energy to save energy somehow. But you’ll toss scraps of food in a landfill, making biogas instead of earthworm chow.
• Some of you detest the hunter, for animal cruelty, you claim. But factory farming is worse, treating man, beast and planet, all the same.
• Some of you believe in, and even worship God. But wasting his creation, doesn’t seem to you that odd.
• Creating carbon credits, you treat pollution like a bank. Just looking at your banking, we’re sure you soon will tank.

Human, you are too busy to be slicing up cheese for a cracker or whipping up cow fat for your strawberry pie. You won’t even consider blending flour, milk and eggs by hand! Luckily, there are products made just for you. And, they are just the sort of empty calorie, fatty products you crave and deserve.

Whether it’s a full 14 tablespoons of canned cheesy stuff, almost a half-pint of almost whipping cream, or eight five-inch pancakes for breakfast—nobody deserves foodstuff from a can more than you people do.

Imagine; 1 cup of milk and 1 cup of flour is now available in a big metal tube; a full 7 ounces of near-cream is packaged inside a can twice as big as the contents; a can of processed cheese product can be had for only $4 and it has almost as much “cheese” as 3 slices of the wrapped orange ones you people eat.

Make it, truck it, warehouse it, refrigerate it and then consume it. These products are made for real people—you won’t see spray can tofu in America. (We understand it’s a fairly popular product in Japan though.)

What amazingly wasteful products do you know?

What do you think it is that makes them special?