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To: Government, Food standards agency, supermarkets and retailers.
Sticker free produce
Remove the plastic stickers from fresh fruit and vegetable produce. Or invest in a more sustainable alternative, for example a biodegradable/edible one.
Why is this important?
Often, wen customers opt for the most sustainable and least packaged item in supermarkets they are still faced with having dispose of the plastic sticker on the product. (e.g. kiwis and apples are big culprits). Although small, the plastic pieces accumulate from our weekly, monthly, yearly shops and thus in the landfill sites we send them too. These stickers are useful but not necessary. The product can be identified and priced from a label attached to the shelf its situated on before purchase. However, if it is still deemed as important, companies can investigate alternatives such as biodegradable or edible ones (made from sugar paper, for example).
