Each bar is wrapped in cellophane, which are then wrapped in the normal outer packaging. To make the 4 pack, they simply took 2x two packs and put them on a cardboard tray,and then wrapped those.
I don’t think I’ve ever gone through so much unwrapping for candy.
No bueno
bueNO
bueYES! Bue always yes.
I bought refillers for ball pen to “reduce plastic” and its packing has plastic equivalent of an entire new pen
i have recently become very aware of and disgusted by the the amount of plastic waste i make.
every single goddammed thing is covered in it. it’s obscene and i am ashamed.
Don’t blame yourself for something that is the fault of massive corporations.
Not your fault there are few, good alternatives. By all means, if switching to more ethical products makes you feel better, don’t let me stop you, but this is a problem that needs government regulation to solve.
But the government regulation will never come without a LOT of voters feeling very unhappy, so perhaps don’t tell people they shouldn’t feel unhappy about the situation?
I guess I dodn’t make myself clear. People should be angry, but they should point that anger at these massive corporations who keep distributing everything in single-use plastic containers, even when there are friendlier alternatives.
People also need education about greenwashing and how to detect it.
There are private companies that do recycle plastic film. I’m in the PNW and I use Ridwell, and it’s helped a lot. I still aim for Reduce first, try to not use plastic when possible, but with food that’s difficult. Reuse obviously, and then Recycle as my last resort, and Ridwell is good with that. If you’re in the PNW and are interested, I think I have discount codes since I’m a member, just DM me if interested
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What do they do with the plastic?
Recycling companies have been known to sit.ply export it to another country with worse regulations and dump in the landfill. You should try to find out where their plastic goes and what happens to it. You can’t really just trust that recycling companies are doing things right.
Order literally anything from china. Each part in a Ziploc, then grouped in a Ziploc, in a box with bubble or balloon wrap, and/or styrofoam, then like 8 miles of yellow packing tape so you have no idea where to open from, and maybe another box or garbage bag layer with more tape, then the packing slip sleeve and more tape over that.
Not good
I’m curious how much plastic it actually is, if you say, melted it into a bead. It’s hard to tell just by looking at a bunch of torn-up wrappers.
What did we package things in before disposable plastic became ubiquitous? I don’t think I was alive then. Or did we just have a lot less small and single serving products?
Kit Kat’s were in foil with a paper wrapper.
I bought some recently and was dismayed to see they were now in plastic as well.
I’m 38 and had to think real hard to remember when they had the foil wrapper and paper sleeve.
Wax paper, or just paper, or tin foil.
Like Cadbury creme eggs used to just be wrapped in foil, now they’re plastic. <- Apparently this is only in Canada since 2015. TIL.
We badly need to return to this
I ordered a lens filter for my camera, and couldn’t believe the amount of packaging and plastic wrapping it came with. It was absurd to the point of lunacy. We’re talking several boxes, something like four or five different plastic wrappers, etc. For a lens filter!
It’s almost like manufacturers are aware that consumers aren’t “allowed” to use single-use plastic when getting groceries, so they double-down on their use for everything else!
Yeah, I ordered two end tables with shelves from Amazon a few weeks ago and they were like that. Each table had about 10-15 bags, and like 7 sheets of styrofoam.
and like 7 sheets of styrofoam.
I really, really hate styrofoam. I recently had to put out an industrial-sized bag filled with the stuff, and I can’t honestly believe it’s still used for packing items. Strategically used cardboard, especially the formed stuff, is so much better to use and can be recycled easily.
Yeah, it’s a mess.
It also has alot of palm-oil in it so it is another reason to avoid it.
Fuck palm oil and any product using it, just like fuck nestle in general.
And it’s not vegan, and it’s not made from fair cocoa, so two more reasons
Does it shock you coming from a company that uses child labor to manufacture their stupid plastic chunks they call toys?
Ferraro didn’t own the suppliers, and I thought they said they were going to address the issues of Turkish child labor with their suppliers. Are you saying they didnt?
Are you saying you just assume a corporation doesn’t lie non-stop?
To be honest, I am curious what had happened since they said it.
But I do expect everyone on the internet to lie non stop.
2 rules to the internet i follow since 1985: everyone is a liar until proven otherwise, and annonimty is important to keep rule 1.
I bought one of these a couple weeks ago to try and I haven’t wanted to buy another because of this. Which is a shame. They were delicious.
They’re my absolute weakness. I usually get two two packs and was like “oh they make a four pack now?” Thinking it would be less packaging… nope, it was more!
I wonder how quickly they would react if enough people mobbed them on social media to redesign the packaging. 🤔 Because surely, using more material for packing is expensive and they could actually save money by being more sensible with how they’re packaged.
There you go thinking smartly again!
Support your local baker and chocolate shop instead, big corporations aren’t your friend but your local small business owner could be
Local business owners don’t stock their goods at the checkout counter at Walgreens. Also, even though I’m in a big city, no one makes something like the Kinder Bueno, it’s not a simple chocolate bar.
Your argument is that since it’s not convient or an exact substitution, we should continue supporting these companies that annoy us?
If you want the product, you have to deal with it.
Do you want a quality product or mush?
They just need a single foil wrapping to preserve the humidity on the wafer, not a matrioska of wrappings
A single wrapper and the cardboard tray would suffice. You probably don’t even need the tray TBH. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten broken Twix bars, and I eat them all the time.
