I would totally eat Laser Avocado Doritos!
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Or buy things without packaging when it is available like for avocados
What? You guys wrapping avocado individually in a paper box? Why?
I've never seen Tesco sell avocados like this before, normally they're just loose in a box or something
I dunno. Supermarkets near where I live sell avocados individually out of a big plastic tub under a sign saying AVOCADOS in case you can't tell by looking.
Iβve never seen avocados in a box. Is that a common thing outside of the US?
Come to Denmark and you'll be seriously shocked by how much plastic is used for food packaging. It's insane and I hate it so much.
The US has its own share of overly plastic packaging. I have occasionally seen individual vegetables shrinkwrapped. Itβs just not the norm.
I saw a pre-peeled orange for sale at a convenience store. It was wrapped in plastic wrap. Like, whyβ½β½β½ They literally grow their own wrapper....
It happens to cucumbers relatively often but other veggies are just so weirdly shaped from a packaging standpoint that I don't think they see it as worthwhile
That was the one I was thinking of! I knew there was an organic veggie I regularly buy thatβs wrapped.
Cucumbers have much better shelf-life when shrink-wrapped. It ends up a debate of which is worse between food waste and plastic waste.
Oh really? I did not know that.
Tesco is in the Uk so I would say so.
Only when folks don't believe their dollar spent affects things.
they could etch an advertisement on them to subsidize the cost.
Fuck that
Or "you could have bought a house"
I feel like other grocers have already solved this problem by just not putting barcodes on the produce at all, and having the item manually punched in at the register while it's on a scale (if it's sold by weight and not per item).
You know whatβs even less packaging? Not putting them in a box
And not etching them as well.
Dunno why you got downvoted for this. I don't see why they'd waste energy etching them when they can just label the tub they're displayed in.
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