Do you suffer from wrap rage? We test the most frustrating packaging

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• published: 20 Aug 2013
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Four in ten people claim they have been hurt battling to open the packaging on everyday goods from electric toothbruses to soap pads and even crumpets. Consumer champions Which? last night said millions of Britons suffer "wrap rage", as modern-day technology and moulded plastic packaging infuriates shoppers. Some 89 per cent use scissors to cut open the plastic, 66 per cent use knives, 8 per cent use Stanley knives, 4 per cent a razor blade and 2 per cent resort to a hammer. Which? added that as many as a million people across the UK are ending up at the GP or the local A&E; every two years because of injuries caused by the humble tin can. One Which? member complained of the "gargantuan" struggle needed to get through packaging on an Oral-B Vitality electric toothbrush. Another raged at the effort needed to get open a pack of Warbutons' crumpets. He said: "I'm a 30-year old male who goes to the gym a lot...but trying to open the plastic wrapping on these crumpters just ends up in frustration." Get the latest headlines http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Subscribe to The Telegraph http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=telegraphtv Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/telegraph.co.uk Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/telegraph Follow us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/102891355072777008500/ Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com/TelegraphTV are websites of The Daily Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.