Product Packaging in the Context of Unsustainability: Slovak Consumers’ Opinions on the Complexity of Selected Products and Their Excessive Packaging

The main goal of this chapter is to explore and identify the insights of Slovak consumers about the complexity of selected products and the excessive packaging of products, focussing on the aspect of their non-sustainable aspects. The issue of product packaging is quite extensive, which is the reason why we focused on food. It was identified almost 90% of the respondents as the category of excessively packaged. We verified the claim using the Relative Proportion Test, which did not confirm our hypothesis. Subsequently, we investigated the dependence of the classification questions on the answers regarding the excessive amount of packaging in food. Dependence has been examined using the Chi-square test of squared contingency. As the most complex products (a lot of variants and functions), the respondents listed cleaning detergents, cosmetics, and services. Food was indicated to have the most excessive packaging (e.g., chips, chocolate boxes, chilled meat, and frozen fish).