Direct link to the site, which is more interesting than this article: https://horg.com/

It's very interesting but just makes you realize how much we waste. There's probably more plastic in those tags than in the plastic bag the bread is in.

Perhaps manufacturers see them as a customer convenience, to 'reseal' the bag when removing slices of bread. But a more environmental option would be to heat-seal the bag with some excess length, so customers could just cut the seal off, and then use their own (metal, wood, designer, whatever) clips/pegs to seal the bag. Or just move the loaf to a bread bin.

Are these that widespread? I've never seen one in Russia, all our bread comes with those bendy plastic clamps with two pieces of wire sealed inside edges. I've only seen the flat plastic ones in UAE and thought they were neat.

When we were kids we collected fruit stickers, mostly banana and orange