"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
The labels are usually plastic and the glue isn’t good either, the laser just needs electricity to do the print, and that print is completely without waste.
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.
Most of the assembly line is already there to measure, clean, decontaminate and package the stuff, and a laser like that isn’t hard to build, in the end, the waste reduction doesn’t only reduce plastic output (wich was my main point) but also reduces the amount of Co2 output significantly over time. The amount of maintenance a laser needs is very low, it doesn’t burn stuff, its not doing anything harmful lasers are prefect.
You don’t need to put literally anything on the avocado whatsoever, no sticker or anything.
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.
How exactly are they told apart then? There is always multiple Providers, “Organic” “From XY” you need to tell them apart.
And yes im 100% shure that it reduces plastic waste because everything is made from and with plastic. Modification of assembly lines isn’t hard either, they are modular most of the time.
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
They don’t need laser etching either. Take a basket of fruits, put a label on the basket.
The labels are usually plastic and the glue isn’t good either, the laser just needs electricity to do the print, and that print is completely without waste.
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.
Thats not how this works at all.
That’s exactly how it works.
Yeah when you live somewhere with just such shops maybe but its not very common in most countries. And therefore you are wrong.
Except, you have to build the laser… And the assembly line…
Most of the assembly line is already there to measure, clean, decontaminate and package the stuff, and a laser like that isn’t hard to build, in the end, the waste reduction doesn’t only reduce plastic output (wich was my main point) but also reduces the amount of Co2 output significantly over time. The amount of maintenance a laser needs is very low, it doesn’t burn stuff, its not doing anything harmful lasers are prefect.
This is a pointless, wasteful novelty
How exactly are they told apart then? There is always multiple Providers, “Organic” “From XY” you need to tell them apart.
And yes im 100% shure that it reduces plastic waste because everything is made from and with plastic. Modification of assembly lines isn’t hard either, they are modular most of the time.
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
A shop near me sells around 10 types of avocado’s.
thankfully you don’t work in the industry