Green Oil, purveyors of eco-friendly cycle lubricants, aim to go even further in befriending the environment with their new packaging, which features a series of tips for greener living as well as bar-coding with an amusing slant.
The eco-tips address such thorny but relevant and potentially money-saving subjects as whether it is better to leave a modern car engine idling for 20 seconds or turn it off and back on – it’s the latter – and are intended to bust some of the more enduring myths surrounding everyday energy consumption.
Meanwhile, at the checkout there’ll be laughs aplenty at Green Oil’s new barcodes, which incorporate the distinctive stripes of the code within a suitably inspired-design. The Green Oil Bicycle Brush, for example, gets a “Bark Code” design…