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

I’m sharing this because any reduction in unnecessary packaging waste is good for the planet - and because I think laser-etching avocados is funny. 🙂

  • thesmokingmanEnglish
    31·
    7 months ago

    I’ve never seen avocados in a box. Is that a common thing outside of the US?

    • TDCN@feddit.dkEnglish
      13·
      7 months ago

      Come to Denmark and you’ll be seriously shocked by how much plastic is used for food packaging. It’s insane and I hate it so much.

      • thesmokingmanEnglish
        9·
        7 months ago

        The US has its own share of overly plastic packaging. I have occasionally seen individual vegetables shrinkwrapped. It’s just not the norm.

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          7 months ago

          I saw a pre-peeled orange for sale at a convenience store. It was wrapped in plastic wrap. Like, why‽‽‽ They literally grow their own wrapper…

        • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          7 months ago

          It happens to cucumbers relatively often but other veggies are just so weirdly shaped from a packaging standpoint that I don’t think they see it as worthwhile

          • eRac@lemmings.worldEnglish
            4·
            7 months ago

            Cucumbers have much better shelf-life when shrink-wrapped. It ends up a debate of which is worse between food waste and plastic waste.

          • thesmokingmanEnglish
            3·
            7 months ago

            That was the one I was thinking of! I knew there was an organic veggie I regularly buy that’s wrapped.