Submitted 1 month ago by gigachad@sh.itjust.works to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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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 but this little stickers on their fruit and veggies, they are similarly infuriating as stickers on non organic stuff.
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.
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…
Usually they’re required to be food safe, so eating them should at the very least be harmless.
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
I can guarantee you your soil is already contaminated with microplastics that have been shed from car tires and entered the water-table.
Paper is organic. Just toss the peel in the bin, the paper sticker will decompose.
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.
Just rip that specific section of peel all the way off and throw away. You’re still composting 2/3 to 3/4 of the peel and not eating any more time than necessary.
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.
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The worst are the tags on clothes that inevitably damage the clothes
Like the tags with the plastic “string” that attaches then to the clothes? You’re not supposed to just rip that out, you’re supposed to cut the “string”. If that’s not what you’re referencing, then I have no idea the tags you are talking about, but I’m curious.
Similar to the string, but it’s two black stretchy strings. They’re tightly wound and intended to be pulled off.
There are also certain anti theft ones that have very thick spikes that leave holes that don’t fill after being removed at the register.
They do make edible stickers with edible adhesives for produce… They’re usually not that sticky though
Yeah. Been there I like to feed the peel to my chickens. But I don’t want to feed them the sticker.
Btw, teabags are biodegradable, the cord too?
Some tea bags are plastic.
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.
Even the paper ones often use plastics in the glue apparently?
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.
hanke@feddit.nu 1 month ago
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 1 month ago
They’re non-harmful if you eat them, but They’re also not compostable and need to be removed before being disposed of
NABDad@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Clearly the answer is to eat the sticker.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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 1 month ago
Yup these non removable stickers make the “complete packaging” regular rubbish by definition. Consider a supermarket/brand which uses removable labels.
TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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