Addressing new ways in which people function day to day is a process of reprogramming people and their need for convenience. There are thousands of convenient mini products in our shops and markets — like these honey packages — and often it appears that there is more package than product.

Capilano‘s Snap’n Squeeze product offer of 12 x 7g packaged units, packaged in an 85g bag for 84g net (total amount of product) of honey, is one of these offers. For one 400g jar of “easy squeeze” Capilano honey, one needs 4.8 bags of Snap’n Squeeze sachets. Or in price terms a $4 jar for 4.8 x $3 bags ($14.40) of the same NET amount of product. Or in terms of waste 1 jar, 1 seal wrapper, 1 lid, compared to 54 spent sachets and 5 bags.

Designers are well positioned to query such products and encourage clients and consumers to adopt less wasteful ways to package, purchase, handle and consume products.

If foods need special conditions to handle them, is it not more satisfying to wait and be rewarded when conditions are right?

Isn’t living all about learning how deal with with foods that have skins, piths, pips, that drip, dribble, leak and stick?

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