What do you call that rigid plastic packaging?

Factual Questions
1

You know, you buy a watch or a small toy or a keychain or something, and it’s wrapped in that rigid, molded plastic that highlights the product so beautifully and has a handy hole in it’s top so it hangs just so off display racks but when you try to open it you have to cut it open and it’s really difficult and then it leaves amazingly sharp plastic edges that can (and often do) give you a painful cut and even then you still have to pull pull pull the sides apart to get at your product and half the time you ended up cutting the instructions because you didn’t know they were hidden in there?

What’s that kind of packaging called?

Whoever invented it should be hung by their thumbs and pecked to death by tool-making crows.

2

A pain in the ass :smiley:

3

A Blister package? That’s what you call a piece of cardboard with the product held under a bubble of plastic.

You’re probably talking about the entire thing being made if plastic. I know what you mean, and I’d call it a pain in the ass too!

4

I’m talking about the latter, not the former. Cardboard backing is a relative cinch compared to this unmitigated evil.

5

I THINK it’s called HDPE (high density polyethylene). I’ts been a while since chem2 class when I studied polymers and such. But I don’t think it would be Bakelite.

6

I THINK it’s called HDPE (high density polyethylene). I’ts been a while since chem2 class when I studied polymers and such. But I don’t think it would be Bakelite.

7

What you’re talking about, I think, is an all-vinyl blister pack. They can be heat-sealed or glued, and they’re usually ( I think) vacuum-formed.

Yeah, I hate 'em.

8

This reminds me of two of my favorite quotes from my mother. Invariably everytime she encounters a product encased in that super strong plastic, she’ll say “I hate this damned space age plastic!”.

The other is when she can’t get a bottle of pills open because of the child safety caps: “Oh God, I’d rather take a chance on being poisoned than fight with these things!”

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9

Only children can open childproof packaging. They’re the only ones with sufficient time on their hands.