Comment on Adding stickers to my fruit so it's harder to recycle

kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ulterno@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    These stickers 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…

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  • scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• passenger@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It has a plastic film on it, and it is not what you want to try to compost unless you want contaminate your soil with microplastics. But most people just don’t know this or care

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  • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can guarantee you your soil is already contaminated with microplastics that have been shed from car tires and entered the water-table.

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    • passenger@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sorry, but your argument doesn’t work very well. It is classic whataboutism. Why would that make me want to contaminate it more with some stickers?

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      • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Because the microplastics from the sticker amount to a rounding error. You’re spending time and energy doing nothing of value. It’s like you’re picking each individual marshmallow from your lucky charms to reduce your sugar intake but then drinking 8 cans of coca-cola.

        And it’s not whataboutism, i am not defending my own bad actions by attempting to deflect. That’s what whataboutism is. Not telling someone that it’s pointless to ration their toilet flushes when they’re sprinklers are still watering their lawn three times a day.

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