The snack's packaging is now more consumer-friendly.
Attend a baseball game or any other sporting event where sunflower seeds are the snack of choice and you’ll see players and coaches trying to reseal opened sunflower seed packaging in all kinds of ways: elastic bands, tape, paper clips, and sometimes even transferring the remaining contents into a plain recloseable plastic bag.
The same do-it-yourself methods of resealing a package are also being applied to just about every other food or product group that comes in a flexible pouch. While these homemade techniques are frequently employed, none are particularly consumer-friendly or effective.