Packaging Engineers are NOT GREEN

Recently my niece gave me a pet egg for shaving feet. While opening the egg which was the size of two regular large eggs I used scissors and ripped and ripped and ripped plastic packaging. When are corporations going to stop using plastic that can not be recycled? I understand wanting to protect against theft but good grief could we not find a better solution. American's are such consumers and go into any product store for electronics, cosmetics, tools even food and it is absurd the amount of plastic. It is everywhere. Now knowing chemicals are bad and plastic is made from chemicals and petroleum is there not a solution for recycled containers?