Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and Energy

Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by supermatt on Thursday October 10, 2019 @01:47AM (#21211318)

Its unit price as required by directive 98/6/EC.

A unit is how the product is customarily sold (singly) in the member state.

So for items typically sold as 500g in Germany, all items of that type in Germany would be labelled with 500g as the unit size for comparison. That same product may typically be sold in the UK as 1kg, so in the UK they would use 1kg.

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Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by Faark on Thursday October 10, 2019 @07:25PM (#21220235)

Are we talking about stuff that can vary in size but isn't weighted? Like kiwi's or cucumbers have a fixed price each while apples or bananas have a kg price. But I don't remember seeing processed food without a kg price.

The only time I remember having difficulty comparing was different formats of toilet paper when our usual brand was out of stock... #rolls × #sheets / pack price was a bit to much for me to do in my head. Yeah, I'm not really complaining.

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