Elsie, You paint it all in the negative. Your a
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You paint it all in the negative. Your assessment of FlatPack attributes is skewed, with no note given to the positive in countries with developed infrastructure and dependable electricity.
A non-refrigerated FlatPack of petri plates frees an area in a cooler for items that do need refrigeration. For a small user of plates this means perhaps potentially having one or two more refrigerators available for critical storage items, for a large user of plates this means a significant reduction in energy use for cold storage areas.
Obviously you've never used a cylindrical sleeve of filled petri plates and had them scatter across the floor when opened. rendering them unusable, or had a sleeve roll off a lab counter and break when landing on the floor. The FlatPack doesn't roll, it doesn't scatter plates when opened, it lasts for years at ambient temperature when unopened. Read the Battelle paper again and we'll have a quiz.
It's not only for use in a "niche" market, but nice try from your apparently naïve perspective.
Scott