Why TF would you package an avocado???
Veggies need no packaging or laser etching for that matter
This is cultural waste
You’re preaching to the choir, but it’s better than the plastic they’ve been using
This legit feels like a scene from Idiocracy. “We tried giving the plants Brawndo… it’s the thirst mutilator!”
Just don’t package them like every other sensible country on Earth.
Eh, cucumbers for example having that plastic survive a lot longer which reduces waste (and makes logistics lighter which saves resources) which comes out as net benefit compared to what it takes to package them like that. I used to think the plastic was dumb but was surprised when I looked into it.
Not sure what’s the cost/benefit with avocados, it’s probably different with every veggie. And now that I think about it, might depend on local situation. The source I read was Finnish.
Where I live, the Avocados just lay there without anything on them at all.
The cashiers have a list with the register codes for all unmarked fruits and vegetables right in front of them, and anyone who’s worked there for more than 2 weeks knows them by heart.They do that here with some fruit and veg, but avocados… they’re obsessed with plastic packaging
Well they’re the TESCO AVOCADOS. DON’T YOU DARE CONFUSE THEM WITH regular avocados.
Some organic fruits or vegetables, e.g. cucumbers, have laser branding to distinguish them from their non-organic counterparts.
Ours just have paper ribbons.
The glue is not unproblematic and a customer could just swap the stickers.
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They don’t need laser etching either. Take a basket of fruits, put a label on the basket.
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Except, you have to build the laser… And the assembly line…
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- You don’t need to put literally anything on the avocado whatsoever, no sticker or anything.
- Are you seriously trying to say that building a bunch of fucking lasers and modifying assembly lines would be less wasteful that a tiny label which, by the way, does not need to be made of plastic.
This is a pointless, wasteful novelty
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How many different avocados have you seen in a single shop? In big supermarket there can be like 2 or maybe 3, small and big ones and the “premium” one with paper and/or plastic packaging sold for double the price for idiots
thankfully you don’t work in the industry
Yes, the label is plastic or paper, but you’ll have 1 label (reusable) for 50 or however many fruits fit into the basket in shop instead of having every single one labeled.
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That’s exactly how it works.
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Most fruits and veg don’t need any packaging at all. At most for a few, a sticker with a segment to show the best ripeness color if they insist on branding that sum removed.
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