Consumer Retorts: Trader Joe's Bad Wrap
Yo, Joe! Do apples really need extra packaging?
CONSUMER RETORTS
Trader Joe's Bad Wrap
Yo, Joe! Do apples really need extra packaging?
TRADER JOE'S IS known for its high-quality, inexpensive fare. But what's up with its overpackaged produce? Some of TJ's fruits and veggies come bundled in plastic wrap and on plastic trays—way more padding than any other supermarket uses. A Trader Joe's customer relations representative says the extra packaging ensures safe transportation and efficient stacking. It also means the chain can sort and deliver its own produce and doesn't have to install scales at its checkout counters. That saves the store and its customers money, but it's wasteful and irritating, particularly if you want to buy more or fewer items than come in a single package. And even no-frills 7-Elevens and corner stores can handle selling individual pieces of fruit without scales. Trader Joe's rep says the company is rolling out compostable packaging and "selling some of our produce out of its package." Well, there's an idea that could bear fruit.
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What bugs me about not only Trader Joe but all markets and in fact all stores is that the packaging often does not even bear a recycle logo. Some of it is not actually being recycled, even if logod -- but it could be in the future when someone figures out how. Anyway since I spend a LOT of money in TJ, I have collected, washed, dried a number of such packages lacking logo and sent them together with a letter asking TJ to use its corporate power to lean on suppliers to put a logo on their packaging. If not now, then in near future (I realize that to implement it would take time). The first time I did this I got back corporate-speak. I wish I had kept that letter. It said basicallly that TJ is not changig packaging. Of course I was not asking for any change in packaging itself. The second time I did it, I got no answer at all.
I think it would be great if people demanded recycle logos on everything. I was thinking of saving all logo-less bags and sending them to the corporate office. If a few thousand people did this, I'll bet it would get their attention!!! Same applies to other large chain stores.
Then the next step is to require packaging manufacturers to submit all proposed new packaging to some oversight entity for recycle certification. They would be rated. Any complex mixture of materials would get zero, even if composed of recyclable materials, if the combination rendered the packaging unrecyclable. For example, plastic lining tin cans. Totally recyclable using current methods would get the highest score.
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