Four years after the program debuted, Amazon now ships 70, 000 products from 200 vendors without excess packaging.

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Once the bananas reach the supermarket then they are removed from the bag and placed on the shelf without any packaging.

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Tobacco products in Australia must be in plain packaging without logos and have graphic health warnings as of December 1.

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In the 1950s, more food was purchased directly off local farms without intermediate processing, packaging and mass distribution.

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Like the kebab in the window, processors could sell what they like as long as their packaging shows the factories - the snapshots of giant, quivering piles of the contents, without pictures of salads, breadcrumb coatings and barbecues.

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