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This also eliminates the residue many of the sticky labels leave on food. The adhesive can also soak into the food itself, and many people are allergic to it.
ReplyGood the chickens can eat the others and also they don’t breakdown in compost…a great move .
ReplyThe “Worm Lady” Mary Applehof would love this. RIP Mary those inedible stickers are on the way out fine lady.
ReplyNothing that can’t be removed with a vegetable peeler and put in the compost. It’s only a surface burn.
ReplyLazer printing is very dull. In order for the label to be seen the fruits and vegetables must be sprayed with a chemical first. Either iron oxide or iron dioxide. So you have to spray it with rust. Not sure how that’s good for you. Lock-jaw anyone.
ReplyGood Food Store Missoula!!! Lucky’s Market Missoula!!! Orange Street Food Farm!! Missoula Fresh Market!!! Is it possible to convince produce suppliers to start doing this instead of those wasteful stickers???
ReplyLaser machines take power to build and to operate
Seems to me a great idea but just shifting the problem to a different area
Bit like paper to plastic and now back to paper!
Costs of sticky labels:
> Paper
– land space for paper crops
– water, fertilizer, herbicides, pesticides for paper crops
– plant-to-paper production (chemical process)
– transportation
– storage
> Sticky
– land space for sticky crops
– water, fertilizer, herbicides, pesticides for sticky crops
– plant-to-sticky production (chemical process)
– transportation
– storage
> Ink/toner
– material costs
– transportation
– storage
> Printer
– material costs
– maintenance costs
– energy costs
> Waste
– transportation
– disposal (landfill/incineration)
Costs of laser marking:
> Laser
– material costs
– maintenance costs
– energy costs
Probably because those laser machines cost a gazilion Krona and none but the wealthiest producers could afford them.?
ReplyI really don’t know why individual sweet potatoes need to be labelled. In South Africa they are displayed and you take what you want and have them weighed. If items are imported, the shelf label tells you. Simple, easy, cheap.
ReplyWhat, oh what, did we ever do before every piece of produce had to be labelled? It’s just one more unnecessary piece of packaging that wastes all kinds of resources in order to make someone a buck.
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