Some 137.5 million of the stickers have already been taken off fruit and vegetables and others will go over the next 12 months. They have previously been seen as essential in helping shoppers and ...

Scouring a newly purchased piece of produce to find and peel off its small, sticky label is such a banal activity that we barely give it any thought, apart from mild irritation. But with a new pilot ...

EUGENE, Ore. — A University of Oregon business professor is on a mission to get barcode stickers on produce banned at the grocery store. She’s using artwork, made of those labels, to get people ...

You’re going for a hike this weekend and you need a portable, healthy snack. As you do your normal grocery run, you grab a delicious banana from the rack. To pay for the banana, you scan a produce ...

A lot of fresh food comes in its own natural packaging meaning there's no real need to encase them in plastic. I'm talking about produce such as potatoes, apples, oranges, bananas, avocados, and ...

Woolworths has described its new plan to reduce food waste as a “revolutionary concept”, but a leading environmentalist has slammed the decision as showing a lack of “foresight”. By putting tiny ...

As a noted sticker enthusiast, I’m always on the lookout for news at the intersection of stickers and technology. Which is why this report from 9to5Mac caught my eye: Apple is apparently starting to ...

THOUSANDS of labels detailing plastic “expiry dates” are appearing on supermarket products up and down the country as part of efforts to reduce plastic waste. The labels all list an expiry date of ...

Probably a good thing Paul Cezanne did his painting a hundred years ago. You would hate to see all his still-life fruit immortalized in a wooden bowl with a bunch of plastic produce stickers ruining ...

Ironically, organic fruit and vegetables are often packaged and labeled with plastic. But such unnecessary packaging and plastic stickers could be replaced by an innovative laser mark. Will it catch ...

South Australia has delayed the rollout of a nation-leading ban on plastic fruit stickers over fears the cost will be too much for farmers. The state was set to become the first jurisdiction in the ...

The state was set to become the first jurisdiction in the country to make the environmentally-friendly move in September, with NSW looking at a similar ban. But the South Australian State Government ...