I find it very tiresome having to remove stickers from store bought fruits so they don't get into my compost pile. These stickers are made of plastic and of course won't decompose. Inevitably, many do get by me and I have to pick them out when shifting the compost. The solution would be to make them out of paper. I can't believe it would be that much more expensive and it would keep some of the ever increasing plastic out of the environment.
by norris00999
11 Comments
agreed!!!
Produce is frequently washed. Not sure this is feasible
Just pick them off as you use the fruit. It’s part of the process: pick label, wash, peel/slice, eat.
It is very important for these labels to be legible; if made out of paper, ironically this makes them easy to breakdown by way of the environmental elements. Thus making its purpose futile
From someone that has worked in a grocery store, paper ones would not last. Yes there are other ways but there’s much moisture involved in processing, transporting, storing in walk ins, and under misters once they are put on the floor. The paper would not last.
I’ve found stickers in the bottom of my compost, years and yeara old.
Peel them and garbage them
Or plaster them onto a notebook and macro made
You’re not peeling them off to prep the fruit?
It’s just a sticker. Cardboard boxes have way more than that lol. I agree tho, they suck and never decompose.
I eat stickers all the time dude
I will probably be in the minority but sometimes I just toss them in. I can pick them out when I use the compost down the road 🤷🏽♀️ micro plastics left and right i think a sticker will be OK
im confused how you compost
do you buy fruit to compost??? surely youd remove the sticker before eating the fruit?