{"id":1597,"date":"2009-04-17T08:28:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T16:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:35:54","slug":"a425","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1597","title":{"rendered":"#a425 :: Gillette Shaving Cream cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/041709.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1598\" title=\"041709\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/041709-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"041709\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/041709-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/041709-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/041709.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The fetish of packaging, the gloss of the new. Plastic lids for shaving cream come in two sizes &#8211; the simple quarter-sized button protector found on <a href=\"http:\/\/barbasol.com\">Barbasol<\/a> or this full-bloat blowmolded cylindrical monster, which covered the can of Gilette I bought last week.<\/p>\n<p>With the earth&#8217;s carbon load trending toward the toxic, I worry about the way we&#8217;re accounting for the shit that manufacturing puts into the air. Sure, China and India are the planet&#8217;s booming engines of cheap manufacture, heedless of air scrubbers and parts-per-million of nonorganic particulates and other niceties of owning your effluence.<\/p>\n<p>But they&#8217;re booming because we Americans &#8211; prim, Prius-driving, grocery-bag-recycling little smuglies that we are &#8211; still consume the lion&#8217;s share of the world&#8217;s manufactured goods.<\/p>\n<p>Something to think about as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=earth+day&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a\">Earth Day<\/a> approaches and the temp in my office is preparing to top 90 in the middle of April.<\/p>\n<p>So I could dump this back into the waste stream &#8211; hoping that L.A. City trash gleaners reroute it to the proper recycling chain.<\/p>\n<p>Or I could think of some other use for it.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, maybe I need to go back to shaving with soap from a mug &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fetish of packaging, the gloss of the new. Plastic lids for shaving cream come in two sizes &#8211; the simple quarter-sized button protector found on Barbasol or this full-bloat blowmolded cylindrical monster, which covered the can of Gilette I bought last week. With the earth&#8217;s carbon load trending toward the toxic, I worry about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,41,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ephemera","category-green","category-jetsam","category-part"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}