The problem with those stickers on fruit

Even Composting Comes With Sticker Shock - NYTimes.com:

The most bedeviling problem for the company that turns most of the Puget Sound region’s kitchen waste into compost is on a piece of fruit. Almost every piece of fruit.
It’s that little sticker that tells you whether the fruit, and many kinds of vegetables, are organic, where they came from and which code a supermarket cashier should punch into the cash register.
At Cedar Grove Composting, which every year turns about 115,000 tons of food and other waste collected from restaurants and home kitchens into dark compost for both gardens and larger construction projects, those stickers are a huge headache. Hunks of wood, ham bones, coffee cups, greasy pizza boxes and oyster shells all go through the system with ease. ...
But those stickers? “They’re so little we just can’t sift them out,” said Stephan Banchero III, the vice president of Cedar Grove. “They end up popping out in people’s gardens. It’s really annoying.”