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.
The worst are the tags on clothes that inevitably damage the clothes
Just 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.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.
They do make edible stickers with edible adhesives for produce… They’re usually not that sticky though
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.
You could just cut out the section of peel with the sticker and compost the rest.
Ain’t nobody got for 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Very common in usa
Plastic coated paper even!
I see them far less often than I used to.
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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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.
