
While I'd rather not have to buy something which is only meant to be used once, I've never gotten comfortable with using ear picks (耳かき mimi-kaki) ... and besides, they don't feel very comfortable in my ears. I know lots of people are really into them, but they're just not for me.
Okay, so I've established that I prefer cotton swabs to ear picks. Especially because my preference is for the disposable option, I really hate how cotton swabs are all packaged in more plastic than necessary here in Japan.
Johnson's Cotton Swabs are available in a cardboard box, but the box doesn't store efficiently and if you take the swabs out and put them in a different container, I always end up dropping some and that's pretty annoying, too.
It's a little thing, but I wanted to share with you all in Japan the one place where I feel my cotton swab purchases create less waste.
At the Muji store, they sell cotton swabs packaged in the usual plastic package:

Once you have one plastic or alternative swab container, I just don't understand why anyone would need a fresh container for their fresh swabs.
So thankfully, Muji also sells replacement packages which use only a small piece of cardboard that I can put out on paper recycling day and altogether far less plastic.

And here it is: a package of cotton swabs that's just a little bit less wasteful.
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