Tesco's Laser-Etched Avocados to Save on Packaging Waste - Core77
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"Laser avocado" sounds like a Doritos flavor, but it's actually a packaging technique being trialed by Tesco. In a bid to reduce packaging waste, the UK supermarket chain is laser-etching avocados rather than using barcode stickers. And for their avocado products that come in twin packs, they're ditching the plastic
  • ynazuma@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 months ago

    Why TF would you package an avocado???

    Veggies need no packaging or laser etching for that matter

    This is cultural waste

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      5 months ago

      Most fruits and veg don’t need any packaging at all. At most for a few, a sticker with a segment to show the best ripeness color if they insist on branding that sum bitch.

            • The Assman@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              5 months ago
              1. You don’t need to put literally anything on the avocado whatsoever, no sticker or anything.
              2. Are you seriously trying to say that building a bunch of fucking lasers and modifying assembly lines would be less wasteful that a tiny label which, by the way, does not need to be made of plastic.

              This is a pointless, wasteful novelty

                • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  1·
                  5 months ago

                  How many different avocados have you seen in a single shop? In big supermarket there can be like 2 or maybe 3, small and big ones and the “premium” one with paper and/or plastic packaging sold for double the price for idiots

        • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          11·
          5 months ago

          Yes, the label is plastic or paper, but you’ll have 1 label (reusable) for 50 or however many fruits fit into the basket in shop instead of having every single one labeled.