gigachadAdding stickers to my fruit so it's harder to recycle
Brave Little Hitachi WandHow non-organic are those stickers?
What would happen if you just tossed the peel in organic waste with the sticker on?
BruncvikMy rubbish company told me not to throw them into the compost bin; that it’s better to put your peel onto regular rubbish if you can’t get them off.
Yup these non removable stickers make the “complete packaging” regular rubbish by definition. Consider a supermarket/brand which uses removable labels.
BurgerBaronI can’t recall running into paper labels on fruit before. Idk where OP lives or maybe I’ve just somehow dodged brands that do this up until now, wtf.
cheers_queersVery common in usa
Wow, I expected this from the US, Canada, or the UK.
I thought having clear rules for an efficient society was Germany’s whole thing.
The rule is “a banana from one brand must never be scanned as a banana from the other brand” lol. People rip bananas apart all the time and then always say it was the cheapest one at the cashier. So there is a need to put a sticker in every single unit.
as said common in usa but I swear I saw a tech to like burn print things with peels to make these unnecessary. Feels like if it worked well enough we should be seeing it by now.
I suppose the ecosystem enjoyer could just cut the part of the peel that is affected a rubbish only the affected portion. Still sucks though
They’re non-harmful if you eat them, but they’re also not compostable and need to be removed before being disposed of.
CorkyskogPaper is organic. Just toss the peel in the bin, the paper sticker will decompose.
Huh? Two passes with a knife takes almost no time. Far quicker than trying to remove the sticker.
It is an option to cut it in half, but I need to make a knife dirty, I need to throw the keep into two different bins. It’s not too much work, but I eat a banana every morning in my breakfast before work. It’s annoying, and an easy removable sticker would just save some time.
They. Don’t. Have. Time.
Complaining about produce stickers online is time consuming
Just rip that specific section of peel all the way off and throw away. You’re still composting 2/3 to 3/4 of the peel and not eating any more time than necessary.
MrMobius When I managed our compost as a kid growing up, we composted the stickers and they would break down faster then egg shells or cofee grounds. But that was 20 years ago and in the US.
theneverfoxThey do make edible stickers with edible adhesives for produce… They’re usually not that sticky though
Guy IngonitoJust leave the stickers on the peels in the organic waste bin. It’s fine.
Are those stickers fully paper and no plastic?
Usually there tends to be a thin plastic film.
Usually there tends to be a thin plastic film.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 The stickers on fruit snd veggies are usually edible, in my experience. But I ain’t ever seen one rip like a normal sticker when peeling them off as shown in OP’s pic so… This looks more like a sticker the store put on it, snd not like the grower’s sticker that’s usually on the fruit.
It has a plastic film on it, and it is not what you want to try to compost unless you want contaminate your soil with microplastics. But most people just don’t know this or care
I can guarantee you your soil is already contaminated with microplastics that have been shed from car tires and entered the water-table.
Sorry, but your argument doesn’t work very well. It is classic whataboutism. Why would that make me want to contaminate it more with some stickers?
Because the microplastics from the sticker amount to a rounding error. You’re spending time and energy doing nothing of value. It’s like you’re picking each individual marshmallow from your lucky charms to reduce your sugar intake but then drinking 8 cans of coca-cola.
And it’s not whataboutism, i am not defending my own bad actions by attempting to deflect. That’s what whataboutism is. Not telling someone that it’s pointless to ration their toilet flushes when they’re sprinklers are still watering their lawn three times a day.
Like the tags with the plastic “string” that attaches then to the clothes? You’re not supposed to just rip that out, you’re supposed to cut the “string”. If that’s not what you’re referencing, then I have no idea the tags you are talking about, but I’m curious.
Similar to the string, but it’s two black stretchy strings. They’re tightly wound and intended to be pulled off.
There are also certain anti theft ones that have very thick spikes that leave holes that don’t fill after being removed at the register.
NighedBtw, teabags are biodegradable, the cord too?
Some tea bags are plastic.
Seriously? I know only the paper-like kind.
Yeah. Been there I like to feed the peel to my chickens. But I don’t want to feed them the sticker.