Pet Hate

Perhaps it should be entitled Petty Hate

Little plastic stickers on fruit. I now live in a country that has banned plastic bags in supermarkets (well sort of - the bags for life are still some kind of plastic, and the fruit and veg that comes ready bagged is in plastic, but to be fair most is loose and you choose your amount and bag it in paper bags or your own reuseables), banned plastic drinking straws, plastic stems in cotton buds, plastic coffee stirrers… all things that actually had uses. However the promoters of these plastic reduction schemes need to stamp on the absolutely pointless little bits of plastic pollutants that come stuck to our fruit. Even if they come off with a fruit skin you discard (oranges, bananas, avocados) I still have to pick away at them so I don't end up with plastic contaminants in my compost heaps/garden.

Vegetables don't get stickered. Why do we need a label to tell the round orange thing is an orange?

And there is no way that tiny rubbish is recyclable; a complete waste of the planet's resources.

There. I've got that off my chest. Rant over. I think I'll go and eat a carrot.