Comments on: Should We Worry About Little Plastic Produce Stickers?

By: BethTerry

BethTerry — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 03:01:35 +0000

@Arjan Klapwijk Hi. Thanks for the link to BioTAK. But do you have a link for the entire label? What is the company that is producing the labels and what is the facestock made from? I would love to know more.

By: Arjan Klapwijk

Arjan Klapwijk — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:23:41 +0000

Until now these labels were not compostable.
Recently we have developed a fruitlabel that’s certified compostable in compliance with EN13432 (US: ASTM6400). The label is made of a bioplastic facestock and our BioTAK(R) adhesive.
So now you can compost the peelings together with the label.
For more info: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biotak.com&h=HAQFGj1tB&s=1.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:55:13 +0000

Unfortunately, the stickers are not just there so that cashiers don’t have to memorize the produce numbers. I bought a box of clementines (Cuties brand) and they were on many of them and there were no produce numbers (the number was on the box), just advertising such as “Cuties are for Kids!”. So they were 100% unnecessary.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:51:44 +0000

Stop buying fruit @ markets that use stickers.

We have to stop giving them money. This is the only way.!!!!!!!!

By: jenny

jenny — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:34:04 +0000

if we can’t get rid of the stickers, maybe that can at least make them out of PLA so we can compost them? hmmm, probably too much of costly change they’d say. who manufactures them anyway?

By: Psychic Lunch

Psychic Lunch — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:21:52 +0000

@wwwebbs, from Local Nourishment, reminded me to come back to Fake Plastic Fish, and I see you’ve an article on this already! I just wrote up my opinion of this on my Psychic Lunch site, but in a nutshell, I think there are viable alternatives to the plastic sticker that producers darned-well ought to be using, like paper stickers or laser branding (which is new to me).

I’ve subscribed to your RSS feed and pushed it to the front of my list, now! I’m glad you have this info out there for us all!

-Dan

By: Coccinelle

Coccinelle — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:41:01 +0000

“STICKERS DIFFERENTIATE ORGANIC FROM NON-ORGANIC”

Oh yeah? Not here! All the place I go, there is no organic fruit in bulk. They are all wrapped in plastic ;o( I really don’t think it’s better than the plastic sticker.

The thing I hate the most with them is the glue! I’ve always wondered whether it was safe to eat that glue… you know that often a little bit of glue can remain on your fruit no matter how hard you wash them? Well, I cut that part!

I mean how a glue that can’t be washed with water can be non-harmful??? I’m not chemist but I found it weird!

By: What’s Going On

What’s Going On — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:35:39 +0000

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By: Piper

Piper — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:17:22 +0000

All these evil ways of slipping plastic into everything we buy has to stop. Fruit used to be one thing you could buy to opt out of plastic. Now you can’t even do that. Those stickers should be biodegradable so that they can go in the compost.

By: Tia

Tia — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:42:37 +0000

My kids and I collect & send our fruit stickers to Barry. Glad to see you post it for others. :)