A few weeks ago, my class was given a project called, Cereal Investigation: Maximizing Volume, Minimizing surface area. We had to calculate all the dimensions of the cereal box and create a smaller box that could still fit in the cereal.
The cereal box that I used was Cheerios. What I noticed about the package was that half of it was unnecessary. The cereal box had half of Cheerios (which was on the bottom of the box of course,) and half air which filled the top.
If you think about the cereal box and how it was made, you'll know that the box was made from trees. If all Cheerios cereal, and other cereals, wasn't filled with half of air, think about how many trees that would've been saved from being cut down just to make the cereal box when half of it was really unnecessary. Making the cereal box smaller would save money, trees, and it would be very economically friendly.
What I, and everyone, could do to change the packages to reduce the excess packaging is to find a way to redesign a smaller cereal box, that could fit the same amount of cereal into it. I believe that the factories that make the cereal boxes should do this too.
The new cereal box I made could hold the same amount of Cheerios. It saves up space since it is smaller, and if cereal boxes were smaller, people would be amazed at how small the box is and how much cereal it holds!
Making the new cereal box took me many tries till I finally got it right. Without the surface area, you would not be able to find out if the new cereal box design takes up less space than the original cereal box design. And without the volume, you can't tell if the new box could hold the same amount of cereal or not.
Redesigning a new cereal box was very frustrating for me. But it did make me realize that the cereal boxes that factories made today are not economically friendly. If factories redesigned cereal boxes, it would save money, time, and trees. It would also be much better for the environment.
This is my redesigned cereal box:
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