Apple Bytes

I bouth a copy of An Inconvenient Truth this weekend, and I have already watched it several times. For anyone who doesn't know, Al Gore is on the board of directors for Apple Computers. He uses an Apple laptop computer to give his slideshow which is featured in the movie.

What impressed me about this DVD is the packaging.

The DVD will be packaged with no excess materials, so as to make the smallest environmental footprint possible. Packaging will include 100% post-consumer waste
recycled paper, inks and coatings formulated to emit virtually no volatile organic compounds into the atmosphere, no inserts, no laminates and no plastic. The package was manufactured by Ivy Hill.

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Now, to me, this makes a lot of sense. Why waste a lot of matterial in a bunch of packaging that some day is just going to end up in a landfill?

What I'd like to know now is are any other DVDs being released in this sort of minimal packaging? What can I as a consumer do to encourage these companies to use less packaging?

Any ideas?

# posted by Apple Bytes @ 8:42 PM