Target announces initiative to replace single-use packaging

Consumers who want to cut down on their plastic waste will have an easier time finding products that have packaging designed to be reusable or compostable.
According to Target, a new icon will be placed on products designed to lower waste, and the initial rollout will include products in beauty, personal care and household essentials.
Products that have reusable, refillable or compostable packaging will have a “Target Zero icon,” and will be made from recycled content or materials that reduce the use of plastic.
The Target Zero icon will also be featured online.
Company officials say the initiative is part of Target’s goal to have 100% of its owned brand plastic packaging be recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2025.

Now if we can get Walmart to do the same, I find their bags in the woods and in the lakes all the time, such a waste.

About time, now others need to follow suit. It’s crazy how over packaged things are.

It’s just a marketing scam. People don’t understand what compostable really means.

Also read what types of plastic resin “in principle” can be recycled. It’s smoke and mirrors.

Shouldn’t all the same requirements that Target is doing with plastic then apply to the fishing industry as well?

What about mono line? Do you know what that is made from? I certainly see 1000 times more of that garbage lying around then Walmart bags in the woods. And where does your old mono line go when your respooling a reel? In the garbage perhaps? Can you put mono in your recycling bin?

Do you use fluorocarbon? Google what it is. Then google EPA and PFAS. Can it go in your recycling bin?

What is braided line made of? Can it even be recycled?

What about leadcore?

Kinda hard to fish without any line. World is mad to go green without fully understanding what that means.

Somebody needs to put the bottle down and take a nap.

Walmart and Amazon have had these plans in place with their suppliers for some time now. The packaging needed (around the actual product) is different for mail order vs. store.

In store, sales require a more visual approach since that is what the consumer sees vs. say Amazon where the choice is made viewing photos of the actual product.

These stores also are reducing the packaging that surrounds a bundle of one product to lower their waste costs.

Everyone’s favorite … clamshell packaging has a rather big bulls-eye on it.

The “trick” is to reduce packaging, but still, protect the product from handling damage (returns) – yet still attract the consumer to throw it in the cart.

I never shop at target so I guess I’m part of the solution

Hey wrote:

And where does your old mono line go when your respooling a reel? In the garbage perhaps?

Well I can’t say where everyone puts their old fishing line, but I can tell you with 100% positivity that I do not toss it in the woods, lake, or on the ground when I’m done with it and I would certainly hope you don’t either.

I get some of my reels re-spooled at Cabela’s on their tornado line winder and they have a recycling box for old line right next to it. That’s where I put all of my old fishing line. Where it goes after that, I can’t say for sure, but at least I’m not throwing it into the lake or river.

Awesome, good small step forward to cleaning up our planets trash problem

It drives me absolutely crazy when you get products that are so over packaged that the weight of the packaging exceeds the weight of the product. You know things are over packaged when some multi-tools now contain a special blade just to open clamshell packaging…

Good for Target and I hope other companies follow suit. Last week I got a new pair of ski goggles that was packaged in a cleverly designed paper bag. So there is progress.

Deuces wrote:

Awesome, good small step forward to cleaning up our planets trash problem

100%.

Great step. We are sending citizens to outer space on what is becoming routine travel, yet we have been stuck on some crappy plastic bags that are one of the biggest man-made pollutants from day to day societal uses.

Amazon is the King of over packaging.
Love it when they put a box in a box to ship it just so I can see the Amazon logo.

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Hey wrote:

It’s just a marketing scam. People don’t understand what compostable really means.

Also read what types of plastic resin “in principle” can be recycled. It’s smoke and mirrors.

Shouldn’t all the same requirements that Target is doing with plastic then apply to the fishing industry as well?

What about mono line? Do you know what that is made from? I certainly see 1000 times more of that garbage lying around then Walmart bags in the woods. And where does your old mono line go when your respooling a reel? In the garbage perhaps? Can you put mono in your recycling bin?

Do you use fluorocarbon? Google what it is. Then google EPA and PFAS. Can it go in your recycling bin?

What is braided line made of? Can it even be recycled?

What about leadcore?

Kinda hard to fish without any line. World is mad to go green without fully understanding what that means.

so are you saying fishing line is not compostable?

I’ve read your post a couple times and I’m still not sure if I should put my fishing line in the recycle bin, the compost bin, or if its all smoke and mirrors.

[edit] …also which bin should my leadcore go in?

JasonP wrote:

I’ve read your post a couple times and I’m still not sure if I should put my fishing line in the recycle bin, the compost bin, or if its all smoke and mirrors.

It’s the old “if something isn’t perfect at 100% solving every problem we might as well just do nothing” argument

weedis wrote:

About time, now others need to follow suit. It’s crazy how over packaged things are.

100% Amazon delivers a box inside a box surrounded by plastic air with the product in the box in a plastic clam shell.

I didn’t read the post as about being over packaged.

It’s about going “green” with plastic that is recyclable, reusable or compostable and making a “difference.”

And from fisherman on a fishing forum that use fishing line that is all plastic. This plastic makes it’s way into a landfill or a lake or a river or a roadside or a boat landing etc. Isn’t it touch hypocritical? It’s almost zero recycled, reused or compostable.

Braided line and lead core cannot be recycled and are landfill bound. Which is what landfills are for by the way. And yes I put mono in the trash. That’s what my trash can is for.

Mono and fluoro can be recycled in “principle” but is isn’t happening expect for Berkley on a very small scale.

And recycling centers cannot accept mono or fluoro in your neighborhood bins set out on the street so it should go in your trash.

So the question is you praise target but what are you gonna do when the greenies come for your fishing line?

Hey wrote:

I didn’t read the post as about being over packaged.

It’s about going “green” with plastic that is recyclable, reusable or compostable and making a “difference.”

And from fisherman on a fishing forum that use fishing line that is all plastic. This plastic makes it’s way into a landfill or a lake or a river or a roadside or a boat landing etc. Isn’t it touch hypocritical? It’s almost zero recycled, reused or compostable.

Braided line and lead core cannot be recycled and are landfill bound. Which is what landfills are for by the way. And yes I put mono in the trash. That’s what my trash can is for.

Mono and fluoro can be recycled in “principle” but is isn’t happening expect for Berkley on a very small scale.

And recycling centers cannot accept mono or fluoro in your neighborhood bins set out on the street so it should go in your trash.

So the question is you praise target but what are you gonna do when the greenies come for your fishing line?

It’s hypocritical that outdoorsman are praising something that’s good for the environment? I think you’re missing the point.

buckybadger wrote:

Great step. We are sending citizens to outer space on what is becoming routine travel, yet we have been stuck on some crappy plastic bags that are one of the biggest man-made pollutants from day to day societal uses.

It’s actually cigarette butts. Those are made of plastic too.

We got hooked on offshoring our goods to countries like China. And in turn they clam shell the hell out of packages to make the trip across the ocean to a port then a truck to your house. Offshoring contributes to so much more waste. Plastic, oil, etc.

I think the majority of the public doesn’t understand how plastic is ingrained into every part of our society, especially the outdoors.

The problem is not plastic going into landfills the problem lies in those who don’t know how to use trash cans to get it into a landfill. Or don’t even understand what can be recycled and what can’t.

Who isn’t for protecting the environments we fish and hunt in.

Looking back maybe the word hypocritical is to harsh. Maybe naive is a better word to praise Target for recycling plastic and then ignore the fishing industry’s absolute reliance on certain plastic that cannot be recycled. It’s like ignoring what’s in your back yard cause you don’t know any better.

I like my plastic. And I put it in the trash or recycle what my township accepts.

The problem isn’t plastic. It’s the slob’s who can’t throw it away.

I bet you’re fun at parties

Hey wrote:

We got hooked on offshoring our goods to countries like China. And in turn they clam shell the hell out of packages to make the trip across the ocean to a port then a truck to your house. Offshoring contributes to so much more waste. Plastic, oil, etc.

I think the majority of the public doesn’t understand how plastic is ingrained into every part of our society, especially the outdoors.

The problem is not plastic going into landfills the problem lies in those who don’t know how to use trash cans to get it into a landfill. Or don’t even understand what can be recycled and what can’t.

Who isn’t for protecting the environments we fish and hunt in.

Looking back maybe the word hypocritical is to harsh. Maybe naive is a better word to praise Target for recycling plastic and then ignore the fishing industry’s absolute reliance on certain plastic that cannot be recycled. It’s like ignoring what’s in your back yard cause you don’t know any better.

I like my plastic. And I put it in the trash or recycle what my township accepts.

The problem isn’t plastic. It’s the slob’s who can’t throw it away.

I’m not tracking with the argument you’re trying to make. Target is trying to reduce plastic packaging…not just bags. And, to ensure any plastic packaging is recyclable by 2025. So, all those offshore products you reference will need to be in more sustainable packaging.

Bringing fishing line into this argument is not even comparable to the plastic packaging retailers contribute.

And, the issue is the plastic. Sure, the people not recycling or disposing are an issue but the more productive way to solve this problem is to reduce our dependence on plastic.

Matt let me try again. I’m not trying to be ugly and you seem like a reasonable guy.

Clamshell packaging is already the most recycle friendly plastic out there. It’s PET. So I’m not sure what target is trying to do in 2025. But the general public doesn’t know this and they’ve just wanna feel like they are doing something great.

I’m not sure what you mean by sustainable. Landfills are sustainable.

Reduce our dependence on plastic? Again I feel the public is uneducated on the benefits of plastics.

If the problem and issue is plastic..what a slippery slope. Then the sport of fishing is one of the worst offenders to the environment.

All fishing line is non sustainable plastic. And you still think that more packaging plastic from target gets into our waterways then fishing line? So you’ve seen more clam shells then fishing line in the water ways?

Anyone fish soft plastic baits? Do you know some of them are PVC based and are nasty stuff to have in lakes and rivers?

What about ripping raps, slab raps, minnow baits, etc. what about all the soft and hard plastic baits in our lakes and rivers just hanging out. But clamshell’s are the worst problem right?

If you wanna be green fisherman. Just use a hook and live bait.

Stay on the target bandwagon and ride that slippery slope until your sport is effected. Can’t fish without line

crappie55369 wrote:

I bet you’re fun at parties

I’m actually quite fun.

I just think the general public wants to do something “environmental” but they are very uneducated on the subject. Especially with plastic.

Sustainably, environmentally friendly, better for the environment. That have no idea what that is

Hey wrote:

World is mad to go green without fully understanding what that means.

JasonP wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Hey wrote:</div>
It’s just a marketing scam. People don’t understand what compostable really means.

Also read what types of plastic resin “in principle” can be recycled. It’s smoke and mirrors.

Shouldn’t all the same requirements that Target is doing with plastic then apply to the fishing industry as well?

What about mono line? Do you know what that is made from? I certainly see 1000 times more of that garbage lying around then Walmart bags in the woods. And where does your old mono line go when your respooling a reel? In the garbage perhaps? Can you put mono in your recycling bin?

Do you use fluorocarbon? Google what it is. Then google EPA and PFAS. Can it go in your recycling bin?

What is braided line made of? Can it even be recycled?

What about leadcore?

Kinda hard to fish without any line. World is mad to go green without fully understanding what that means.

so are you saying fishing line is not compostable?

I’ve read your post a couple times and I’m still not sure if I should put my fishing line in the recycle bin, the compost bin, or if its all smoke and mirrors.

[edit] …also which bin should my leadcore go in?

Jason,

Leadcore and braid cannot be recycled so you can put them in the garbage. Both of these are plastic or are coated with plastic

Berkley is the only company I know of that will take mono or fluorocarbon (Both are plastic)If you put these into your recycling bin out in the driveway they will be processed out as garbage and will be landfill bound anyway. Better to put those in the garbage can.

gim wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Hey wrote:</div>
And where does your old mono line go when your respooling a reel? In the garbage perhaps?

Well I can’t say where everyone puts their old fishing line, but I can tell you with 100% positivity that I do not toss it in the woods, lake, or on the ground when I’m done with it and I would certainly hope you don’t either.

I get some of my reels re-spooled at Cabela’s on their tornado line winder and they have a recycling box for old line right next to it. That’s where I put all of my old fishing line. Where it goes after that, I can’t say for sure, but at least I’m not throwing it into the lake or river.

What about tying a new lure on, Double uni knot, tying a snap, whatever it is. Where do those tag ends of fishing line go that are cut off? Millions of people doing this daily.

wow.
look at all of that fishing line…

Hey wrote:

What about tying a new lure on, Double uni knot, tying a snap, whatever it is. Where do those tag ends of fishing line go that are cut off? Millions of people doing this daily.

I can’t argue against that one. If you consider an inch of line to be a problem when re-tying, I’ll try to make sure all of it ends up where it should – not in the lake.

I was more simply referring to the balls of wadded up fishing line we’ve all seen on a shoreline or wound up around a trolling motor, etc.

phishingruven wrote:

wow.
look at all of that fishing line…

Water is used in the recycling process as your picture demonstrates. Depending on the density of the plastic it will float or sink.

Lead core, mono, and fluoro will eventually sink to the bottom. Braid could float but that would depend on the coating applied.

Unfortunately, you would have to get a picture underneath that floating pile of plastic to see the bottom as that is where the fishing line would be.

At least this pile of floating garbage has a chance to get cleaned up. Fishing line not so much