The marketing professor says most fruit and vegetable labels in the United States are plastic — not paper.
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 talking about the issue of hidden plastics in places we don’t expect.
University of Oregon marketing professor T. Battina Cornwell thought — if a picture is worth a thousand words, what better way to get people to start talking about the dangers of plastics than art made of plastic.
“A lot of the stickers are indeed plastic and a lot of people don’t know that,” said Cornwell.
The professor from the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business is spreading the word to explain how plastics get into our compost and possibly our food.
“The plastic stickers on …
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