Absolutely everything on store shelves should be in super-basic, cheap, easy to recycle cardboard (or similar) containers with a focus on how their packaging will live on in the, uh, "trash cycle". I know capitalism and "freedom" are in direct opposition to this, but the current system is just _so incredibly wasteful_ I can't help but fantasize about a better way.

Edit: there's a small glimmer of hope in the way some consumer goods are shipped from places like Amazon (in special ship-to-consumer only basic packaging). Then again those are coming from Amazon, which is ironic in its own way.