Some people feel that manufacturers and supermarkets have the responsibility to reduce the amount of packaging of goods. While others argue that customers should avoid buying goods with a lot of packaging. Discuss both views and give your opinion. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
In the highly competitive era of today, manufacturers present their products in excess packaging and
supermarkets exhibit them to attract customers, who are often lured by such products. This excessive
packaging is detrimental to the environment and so has to be reduced. The issue of debate is whether the onus is on the supermarkets and manufacturers or should the customers say no to products with excess packaging. I believe that a joint effort is needed by all.
Since many people today equate quality with superior packaging, companies would not often take the
risk of reducing it for fear of losing their market share. However, branded companies that are already
established in the market can experiment with simple covering, without the fear of losing the popularity of their products. It would be a win-win situation for both – the manufacturer and the customer. For example, multinational companies like ‘Colgate’ can successfully give up expensive packaging of their toothpastes with no loss of sales.
Similarly, customers also have a role to play, by showing greater interest towards items in simple packing. As it is the excessive packaging only adds to the trash generated in the homes. If customers start giving preference to materials with little or no packaging, then this would motivate increasing number of producers to pack their products using the minimum packing and that too of biodegradable materials.
On the other hand, sometimes, the amount of packaging indicates the need to ensure the durability, safety and freshness of products. For instance, most instant foods are packed in several layers using expensive materials like aluminum foil and superior plastic, with the purpose of longer shelf life. In such cases, the packaging could be allowed.
To summarise, manufacturers, supermarkets and customers have a collective role in reducing the
amount of packaging of products
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 109, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...terest towards items in simple packing. As it is the excessive packaging only adds...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, similarly, so, then, as to, for example, for instance, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1637.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 301.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.43853820598 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08283808941 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 176.041082164 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558139534884 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 514.8 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.264898289 49.4020404114 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.133333333 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0666666667 20.7667163134 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.06666666667 7.06120827912 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 10.0 4.38176352705 228% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.215533888205 0.244688304435 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0692186480421 0.084324248473 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0525995418948 0.0667982634062 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0901911970809 0.151304729494 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.042190213716 0.056905535591 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 50.2224549098 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.04 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 78.4519038076 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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