Okay this may not be relatable for a lot of people who do not separate their trash into 4 different bins. But we have a dedicated bin for organic waste, we use it for energy production etc. The supermarkets put these little stickers on their fruit and veggies, they are similarly infuriating as stickers on non organic stuff.
Just leave the stickers on the peels in the organic waste bin. It’s fine.
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.
Are those stickers fully paper and no plastic?
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.
As I do worm composting at home, having those stickers all around is a hell and they are certainly not to be eaten, they may be indigestible at best.
Usually they’re required to be food safe, so eating them should at the very least be harmless.
How non-organic are those stickers?
What would happen if you just tossed the peel in organic waste with the sticker on?
They’re non-harmful if you eat them, but they’re also not compostable and need to be removed before being disposed of.
Clearly the answer is to eat the sticker.
If it’s hard to remove, just eat it along with the peel that is covered by the sticker.
Exactly. The peel is a significant part of the banana. You wouldn’t want to waste it.
I do recommend removing the end part as it’s scratchy on the throat.
My 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.
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
That’s what I’m doing. Of course, it’s easier with an apple when I clean it anyway, rather than a banana where all I have is hands and teeth.
Yup these non removable stickers make the “complete packaging” regular rubbish by definition. Consider a supermarket/brand which uses removable labels.
I 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.
Very common in usa
Plastic coated paper even!
I see them far less often than I used to.
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.
This is Germany
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.
Look at fancy pants Germany over here with more than one brand of banana in a store.
Ireland
I usually shop at Aldi, and their brand comes in plastic bags, with no stickers on the fruit. Still not ideal, but at least it’s easily separable.
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You could just cut out the section of peel with the sticker and compost the rest.
Ain’t nobody got time for that
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 peel 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.
I mean you dont even have to bother just tear that whole section off
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.
The worst are the tags on clothes that inevitably damage the clothes
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.
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.
Yeah. Been there I like to feed the peel to my chickens. But I don’t want to feed them the sticker.
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They do make edible stickers with edible adhesives for produce… They’re usually not that sticky though
Btw, teabags are biodegradable, the cord too?
Edit: only some teabags are. Disapointing.
Some tea bags are plastic.
And almost all tea bags have a shit load of micrplastics in them, they have like some sort of plastic liner or adhesive. It’s getting really hard to find ones that are just fiber and staple now.
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Yeah I’had been wondering if the ink and glue in those stickers could be bad for the soil if you threw them in your compost. So as a precaution I throw them in the recycling bin.
