Organic fruit and vegetables: too much packaging

Bio-Gemüse und -Früchte: zu viel Verpackung

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For years, vegetables, salad and fruit have been offered in the self-service area for customers to weigh themselves. This saves a lot of packaging waste: if you like, you can use the reusable nets or bring along used plastic bags to refill; only in the organic range (vegetables, salad, fruit) is everything already wrapped in plastic bags. So if you buy organic, you produce significantly more plastic waste. That is anything but organic!
Coop is much more ecological in this area and also offers organic fruit and vegetables openly. When will Migros finally do the same?

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Nina_Migros

Hello @Reghi

The topic of packaging is regularly discussed on Migipediaregularly, most recently here. My colleague Sebastian has already given a detailed answer there. However, what is perhaps not made clear enough there is that organic products must be recognizable as such by law right up to the checkout. If everything was packed in non-organic packaging, the mountain of waste would be even bigger.

But not everything is actually wrapped in plastic. For some products, however, such packaging really makes sense because the product quickly loses a lot of water and would become shriveled and lame; for others, you could certainly switch to stickers, for example. But then again, more people complain about this than you might think. Nevertheless, we are always looking at alternatives and making adjustments. Yes, this sentence has been said many times, but the same thing is often asked ;) and we can only say how it is. There will certainly be a lot more happening in this area in the near future. And that's not just something we've said, it's actually the case. Sometimes you just need a little patience. We are aware of the problem, we are working on it, there will be results.

Kind regards, Nina

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