CD's Big Cardboard Box Is History
By Jon Pareles
Published April 1, 1993 in the New York Times
Say goodbye to the long box, the 6-by-12-inch cardboard box that holds a compact disk. As of today it officially becomes an artifact of a bygone decade. After years of wrangling, environmental sentiments have prevailed in the recording business. The hollow, throwaway long box had become a symbol of conspicuous waste, and it had to go.
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Sources about the brief life of the CD Longbox. Presented for informational purposes only.
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1990, December 25
CD Packaging Attacked as Wasteful
By Stephen Holden
Published December 25, 1990 in the New York Times
The way most compact disks are packaged -- in a 6-by-12-inch paperboard and plastic sandwich called a longbox -- has come under increasing criticism from recording artists and others as an ecologically wasteful nuisance. Retailers, on the other hand, defend the longbox as a necessary part of their display racks and a deterrent to shoplifters.
Read the rest: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/25/arts/cd-packaging-attacked-as-wasteful.html
By Stephen Holden
Published December 25, 1990 in the New York Times
The way most compact disks are packaged -- in a 6-by-12-inch paperboard and plastic sandwich called a longbox -- has come under increasing criticism from recording artists and others as an ecologically wasteful nuisance. Retailers, on the other hand, defend the longbox as a necessary part of their display racks and a deterrent to shoplifters.
Read the rest: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/25/arts/cd-packaging-attacked-as-wasteful.html
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