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Arya Mathew, 鈥�22, was with a friend who accidentally, while eating an apple, swallowed the PLU sticker common on fresh fruits and vegetables. Concerned about what was in the ingested label and if it鈥檚 was harmful, Mathew began researching exactly what goes into one of those little adhesive markers.

鈥淲e found out it that it wasn鈥檛 poisonous to us, but it is harming the environment,鈥� she says. 鈥淎nd the problem is that PLU stickers are so small that no one thinks of them as problems to the environment but if you just take the stickers found on avocados, oranges and bananas sold in the U.S. each year, you could wrap the world 1.6 times in plastic, a kilometer wide.鈥�