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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. 🙂
US produce stickers are straight-up edible. Even the glue is food-grade. How is any of that failing to break down in a trash jambalaya?
The stickers are usually either made entirely of plastic or coated in plastic so are not edible or compostable. I don’t think the glue is edible either. Eating one won’t hurt you, but it’s possible eating glue residue over a lifetime might.
I can’t find sources for that…as far as I can tell labels are food grade/GRAS/similar, but not necessarily digestible per se, and not necessarily compostable. Happy to be proven wrong though:
https://www.simplyrecipes.com/is-it-safe-to-eat-the-sticker-on-the-fruit-7564966#:~:text=Although produce stickers are made,and therefore are not compostable.
https://modernfarmer.com/2018/03/little-produce-stickers-are-big-waste-problem/
https://nerc.org/news-and-updates/blog/nerc-blog/2021/11/09/produce-stickers-a-small-but-mighty-problem
Not entirely sure what “edible” means tbh.