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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.

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[–] hanke@feddit.nu 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How non-organic are those stickers?

What would happen if you just tossed the peel in organic waste with the sticker on?

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Clearly the answer is to eat the sticker.

[–] stephen01king@piefed.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If it's hard to remove, just eat it along with the peel that is covered by the sticker.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exactly. The peel is a significant part of the banana. You wouldn't want to waste it.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I do recommend removing the end part as it's scratchy on the throat.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] hummingbird@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yup these non removable stickers make the "complete packaging" regular rubbish by definition. Consider a supermarket/brand which uses removable labels.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] snooggums@piefed.world 2 points 1 week ago

Plastic coated paper even!

I see them far less often than I used to.

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Look at fancy pants Germany over here with more than one brand of banana in a store.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
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[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 30 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Just leave the stickers on the peels in the organic waste bin. It's fine.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Are those stickers fully paper and no plastic?
Usually there tends to be a thin plastic film.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ksh@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Usually they're required to be food safe, so eating them should at the very least be harmless.

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[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

You could just cut out the section of peel with the sticker and compost the rest.

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[–] Unlearned9545@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

💀 ×1000000 ⇒ 👽

[–] leMe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

🤬🔪🤵‍♂️?

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The worst are the tags on clothes that inevitably damage the clothes

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 7 points 1 week ago

They do make edible stickers with edible adhesives for produce... They're usually not that sticky though

[–] Brunette6256@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah. Been there I like to feed the peel to my chickens. But I don't want to feed them the sticker.

[–] MrMobius@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Btw, teabags are biodegradable, the cord too?

Edit: only some teabags are. Disapointing.

[–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Some tea bags are plastic.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago

Even the paper ones often use plastics in the glue apparently?

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

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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