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sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Solarpunk technology@slrpnk.net · 1 year ago

Tesco's Laser-Etched Avocados to Save on Packaging Waste - Core77

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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
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    They don’t need laser etching either. Take a basket of fruits, put a label on the basket.

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        Except, you have to build the laser… And the assembly line…

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            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

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                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

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              thankfully you don’t work in the industry

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        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.

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            That’s exactly how it works.

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