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Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste (telegraph.co.uk)
One of the largest British retailers in London, M&S, is opting in for laser-printed barcodes to reduce paper waste. "The labels, which are etched onto fruit's skins with lasers instead of stickers, will save 10 tons of paper and five tons of glue every year according to M&S," reports The Telegraph. The labels will be etched into the skins of avocados, but "could soon be introduced to other fruit and vegetables and adopted by other supermarkets which are looking for new waste reduction techniques." The labels themselves include the shop logo, best before date, country of origin and product code for entering at the till. What's more is that the avocado's skin is the only area impacted by the lasers -- none of the fruit gets damaged. Bruce66423 writes: Print the information usually on the packaging to reduce waste. Excellent idea -- although the Aldi (the radically cheap, all own brand chain) alternative is to leave avocados untouched and get the cashiers to enter the code.
No the apples (like basically every other vegetable and fruit) come on a styrofoam tray wrapped in polyethylene. M&S are basically the worst for excessive packaging so this is an absolute joke. They basically do not have loose produce, everything is prewrapped in usually at least 2 layers of plastic, not useful stuff we can get recycled at the kerbside either.
My local supermarket started individually shrink-wrapping fruit for your environmentally destructive pleasure. :-(
Edible doesn't equate tasty. Even if they are flavorless, they have a texture that may clash with the fruit they're stuck to.
Yes, I know, very much a First-World problem, but let's be honest here, so is buying tropical fruits in areas where you dig in a pile of snow to find your car in Winter.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
No, not the "666", mark-of-the-beast guys. Yes, those too. But I'm talking about a more local conspiracy (frankly, I haven't met anyone outside of Europe that considers this real, shows that not all loonies that can come up with insane bullshit are located in the US), that those bars can act as some sort of "antenna" and absorb "frequencies" from various sources, which then affect the product, and of course in a negative way.
But luckily, there's hope! You can buy a Sharpie... ok, of course it's not a simple Sharpie, it's an energetically activated (insert more mumbo-jumbo woo here) for the low, low price of 30-50 bucks, and with this you can "connect" those bars and neutralize them that way.
By now some of makers of products aimed at ... let's say energetically challenged people have started to print their barcodes "neutralized", pretty much saying "if they want it that way, it doesn't bother us, so ... let them have it...".
We're now at the point where they seriously demand hazard pay for people working the supermarket checkout.
So no, idiocy is by no means a privilege of the US, we can do it just as well!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.