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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Green Plastic Wrapping is Bananas

Posted by Sarah Mirk on Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:59 AM

Have you seen this shit? Del Monte is now wrapping bananas in plastic. The plastic second-skin gives bananas a couple extra days before they rot and, conveniently, says a big "fuck you" to nature at the same time.

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This week I reviewed the documentary about plastic waste, Bag It, which was surprisingly good and creates a sort of paranoid awareness of the mindless ubiquity of plastic. Plastic is so overused that people and companies don't think twice about using it—which means we wind up with a world where plastic bags are the number one consumer product and the number one piece of ocean trash. Thanks, Del Monte, for turning bananas into weapons of mass marine mammal destruction.

Bag It has a special opening night screening tomorrow night at the Hollywood Theater, featuring Mayor Sam Adams, Representative Ben Cannon and some sort of junk to funk fashion show.

 

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1
Lol, bananas are the fruit that comes with their own wrappers. Lol, this is so stupid. Lol, so not ever buying those.
Posted by ScrumYummy on March 3, 2011 at 12:16 PM · Report
2
Bananas are an athiest's nightmare:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z-OLG0KyR4
Posted by cat & beard on March 3, 2011 at 12:22 PM · Report
3
@cat & beard - HA! That video is awesome, thanks for posting.
Posted by s.mirk on March 3, 2011 at 12:49 PM · Report
4
They are not individually wrapped??? What a friggin rip-off!
Posted by Abusive on March 3, 2011 at 1:20 PM · Report
5
No worry! Doc has now tweaked the flux capacitor to run on plastic wrapping. Thanks, Del Monte!
Posted by Never Alone on March 3, 2011 at 1:20 PM · Report
6
Oh wait they are. It looked like they were putting two to a bag until I looked at it again. Move along...nothing to see here.........
Posted by Abusive on March 3, 2011 at 1:22 PM · Report
7
Smirk is you quit throwing you plastic bags into the river they will not get into the marine environment.
Posted by Rosy on March 3, 2011 at 1:57 PM · Report
8
They're just acting out because their bananas are underperforming...and, guys, you know how upsetting that can be.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialne…
Posted by Todd Mecklem on March 3, 2011 at 2:01 PM · Report
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At least Del Monte is creating jobs here, packing and sealing the bags, probably by third-world orphans for a nickel a month, but as usual all you libtards try to stifle corporate growth.
Posted by theterminizer on March 3, 2011 at 2:48 PM · Report
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If you buy something like this you are a fucking idiot. Sadly, there are a hell of a lot of fucking idiots.
Posted by Beer Batter on March 3, 2011 at 3:37 PM · Report
11
Planned Parenthood suggests always wrapping your banana:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91p_oRGCxXk
Posted by Rosy on March 5, 2011 at 6:57 PM · Report

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