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    Default Do You Like Your Bananas Wrapped in Plastic??

    So, in a world choking with plastic rubbish Woolworth's has decided to wrap its bananas in plastic.
    Eventually this will happen with all fruit and veges UNLESS we have a government with the guts and
    common sense to stop this.
    I surmise that part of Woolies reasoning for this environmental stupidity is that they can slap a bar code
    sticker on the package to make it easier to put through any checkout, especially the self serve ones. This
    will ultimately lead to the elimination of manned checkouts, thereby decreasing costs for the company and
    help to keep profit margins up.

    When will our governments ever act to save us from this sort of practice???

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    Especially with the state of our recycling system here at the moment... it's verging on non existent since China capped their material imports.

    Much is going straight into land-fill
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    I would guess it is as much about the supermarket wanting to sell you a certain volume of bananas and also stop you from self selecting from loose stock.

    At the end of the day it’s up to the customer to put a stop to it. Buy your fruit and veg somewhere else if you can. Ideally everybody would just take the bananas from the plastic box and leave the box for the supermarket to take care of.

    Unfortunately customers are stupid ..... I still don’t understand those who go out of their way to put 3 bananas in a plastic bag.
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    Quote Originally Posted by artme View Post
    Do You Like Your Bananas Wrapped in Plastic??
    As I will never, ever eat a banana it's not affecting me personally but I would hate it if this is the start of getting all fruit and vegetables wrapped in plastic.

    Peter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Stinkalot View Post
    I would guess it is as much about the supermarket wanting to sell you a certain volume of bananas and also stop you from self selecting from loose stock.

    At the end of the day it’s up to the customer to put a stop to it. Buy your fruit and veg somewhere else if you can. Ideally everybody would just take the bananas from the plastic box and leave the box for the supermarket to take care of.

    Unfortunately customers are stupid ..... I still don’t understand those who go out of their way to put 3 bananas in a plastic bag.
    If there were any independent fruit and veg stores left trading maybe the consumer would have a choice BUT they don't...Woolies and Coles have made sure of that! So please don't entirely blame the customer Mr Stinkalot! The customer isn't stupid,on the contrary, customers like Artme are quite onto the fact that they DON'T want their food unnecessarily wrapped in bloody plastic only to end up in landfill or in our precious oceans.Bioplastics should be promoted much more rigorously and consumers should be offered BETTER choices involving the way food is offered for sale.The supermarkets are the ones that are stupid...and government apathetic.Nothing wrong about someone putting 3 bananas in a bag,as long as it is biodegradable.Consumers are screaming for change...MM
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    Wrapped in plastic means they will have a shorter shelf life, bananas ripen when wrapped. They don’t care about waste either with the food or the plastic. We are living in a dumb world, sad really.


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    I get all my bananas plastic wrapped, big blue & silver bags on the bunches on the trees in my yard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sturdee View Post
    As I will never, ever eat a banana it's not affecting me personally but I would hate it if this is the start of getting all fruit and vegetables wrapped in plastic.

    Peter.
    This is already well underway Sturdee. Cucumbers wrapped in a very close fitting plastic skin, small cucumbers in trays with a plastic wrap,
    same for mushrooms and some other item. Plastic punnets for berries and small tomatoes.

    Perhaps it is time for less complacency on the part of customers and time for action such as boycotts, or even sabotage. I also worry that
    children are growing up with thisplsatic wrapping and it will simply become the norm for them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 62woollybugger View Post
    I get all my bananas plastic wrapped, big blue & silver bags on the bunches on the trees in my yard.
    Yeah! Dad had a banana plantation at Burns's Bush when I was a little tacker Sold it before the advent of plastic bags!!

    Bananas on the Nambucca must just about be on the threatened species list by now.

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    I avoid shopping at Aldi for fruit and veg because of their plastic use.
    In Coles I routinely unwrap plastic wrapped food at the shelf in protest of wrapped cucumbers etc. if we all converted their great idea into a store waste problem they’d soon stop wrapping fruit and veg. ..

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