But I need the convenience !

There was a supermarket who thinks peeling banana is too tedious for their customers (see the news report here), so they decided to sell bananas pre-peeled, and then wrapped the bananas on a Styrofoam plate topped with plastic wrap.

This is how lazy we as a society has become. So we want the convenience of avoiding the "chore" of peeling a banana ? Even though that means we are going to trash tons of Styrofoam plates that will take thousands of years, if not more, to bio-degrade ... ?

My friends, you may laugh at the supermarket. But if you think more carefully about the issue, many of our other commonly accepted habits are not significantly less ridiculous.  Think about these:

1. we use Styroform cups in our cafeteria
2. we buy bottled water when we are outside of our home
3. we get five to ten plastic shopping bags for every grocery trip

We could have avoided the waste by:

1. bringing our own mugs to the cafeteria, 
2. pre-filling a reusable water bottle with tap water before we go out, 
3. bringing a reusable shopping bags or baskets to groceries. 

But we say we need the convenience!

It is just that we have been having these other wasteful habits for a longer time.  But this does not make them less ridiculous.

So if this supermarket's idea survives the public outcry (luckily there have been quite some), soon I think we can see these pre-peeled bananas sold in every supermarket. Good luck to our future generations!