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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. 🙂

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[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.world 6 points 5 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.world 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Oh really? I did not know that.

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

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