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.
Not good
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?
Many things didn’t used to be packaged at all, they were sold loose in bulk. The shop would put them in a paper bag at purchase.
Come to think of it, nowadays you can still buy certain things in bulk, but a packaged option exists too. You could carefully choose and weigh the individual potatoes you like, or you could just pick up a bag that was prepared earlier in some potato factory. The same things applies to many fruits and vegetables too.
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.
Cellophane, foil, and/or paper.
Wax paper, or just paper, or tin foil.
Like Cadbury creme eggs used to just be wrapped in foil, now they’re plastic.
They’re still in foil in the UK.
And US
TIL it’s only Canada that switched
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadbury_Creme_Egg
As of 2015, the packaging in Canada has been changed to a 34 g (1.2 oz), purple, red and yellow soft plastic shell.
TIL Canada switched to plastic wrappers
We badly need too return to this
Chocolate bars used to be folded aluminium foil and paper. Some still use those materials but now they weld (crimp with enough pressure?) the foil which is probably better for the product but OTOH it’s slightly annoying because you have too little foil to re-wrap a bar you only took a little bit off of.
I think they’re still wrapped in foil in Australia, though I haven’t had any in a few years. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any eggs come wrapped in plastic, although the bags the foil eggs are in are plastic
Where are they coming in plastic? I still see them just wrapped in foil.
Apparently it’s a Canada only thing, started in 2015.
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?
Where I live normal bread like buns, sliced bread and baguette from my local baker are not more expensive than the grocery store, things like croissants and sausage/chocolate rolls are a bit more expensive but way better in quality however pastries and chocolate are disproportionately more expensive there so I still buy those at the store.
Understandable, we can only do what we are able to
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.
If you want to really know how much try this. https://thebigplasticcount.com/
Tracking what you use will go towards data that can be used to pressure companies and government to try to change their ways.
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
Sorry, what is a PNW?
Pacific Northwest - Seattle/Portland, etc. So I’m guessing no :)
Oh, it’s a part of the US. I’m from Europe.
Terracycle must be a competitor.
Have a friend who puts the majority of her focus on another R: Refuse! Boba tea shop says they can’t fill her reusable mason jar? No boba for her.
She holds onto her trash, and at the end of one year, had half a mason jar full. You could make out one thing in it: a luggage tag from mandatory business trip. Amazing!
And then a billionaire gets in their private jet, and in just 5 seconds of flight generates 8000 times more carbon emissions than she’s saved in her entire life.
Okay, that may be a slight exaggeration.
There is a business in Kent, WA that recycles, styrofoam, flex-foam and plastics (clear, bubble-wrap and grocery bags) for no cost. We save it up and I just dropped a truckload off today. Feels good to not throw it away.
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.
If they are wanting recycling materials with no cash transactions. Those dumps in other countries probably require payment to use their services, so I assume they wouldn’t want it if they were paying to ship it across the world to throw it in another dump right?
Recycling companies get subsidized by the government in a lot of places. They don’t need to charge when they get paid with taxpayer dollars.
Same, it’s pretty damn ridiculous how much trash we generate.
At least cellophane is plant based and will bio degrade
Assuming it’s actually cellophane
… Which I doubt
I don’t see why it would be so unlikely to be cellophane but OP would have to test it.
Try to light it on fire! Cellophane burns like paper, while plastics will melt.
$$$
Does it shock you coming from a company that uses child labor to manufacture their stupid plastic chunks they call toys?
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Are you saying you just assume a corporation doesn’t lie non-stop?
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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.
I ordered a load of network patch cables recently. They all came packaged individually in sealed plastic bags.
And the fucking twist ties.
Why? I’m bulk ordering the shit, I don’t care that they are individually bagged and neatly presented.
Surely there must be some way to bulk-ship pre-terminated cable in a way that doesn’t require tons of plastic and twist ties but still is a decent cable and not a tangled mess by the time I use it.
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.
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.
According to this it takes about 50 tons of PE granules to make about 40 Kilometers of clingfilm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVYpmXRHu00
Moar plastic manufacturing
Only the individual bar wrappings were the standard clear plastic (stronger and more rigid than cling film), the two and four pack wrappers were the folk-like wrappers that you would see on Kit-Kats and the like.
Interesting, but none of these actually answered my question.
Do the math yourself. The answer is there lol.
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I thought they were called Kinder Bueno only here in Spain
Bueno in the US as well.
Kinder Bueno - Spain
Kinder Chido - México
Kinder Copado - Argentina
Kinder Bacano - Colombia
Germany, too
Whenever I’m hating myself for my single use weaknesses, I picture a nurse doing one blood test or bandage… In every room… In every hospital… Everywhere… and that’s just healthcare which we give a pass for obvious reasons. If you want to project your self-hate onto others instead of using the exercise to chill out and be kind to yourself, you can even think of other industries like how much shit is coming out of some gun or Budweiser factory somewhere 🤷
We haven’t been able to find a Walmart Pickup location that doesn’t use way too many plastic grocery bags, so we finally got around to buying and using reusable bags, and it’s so much better! I can actually bring in the groceries in one trip now. I’m never going back. IDK why the shoppers at Walmart insist on putting only 1 or 2 items in each plastic bag. I understand keeping some items separate for food safety, but this is ridiculous! I used to live close to my grandma who crochets plastic grocery bags into sleeping pads for unhoused folks, but we moved away from her and have no use for 20-30 plastic bags a week.
What’s funny is after living in NYC for 5 years and being forced to use reusable bags for years I got used to it. I moved to Miami about 5 months ago and I’m Downtown so I can walk to most places I need to go, and bring a reusable bag with me. A lot of stores down here aren’t used to customers using a reusable bag, so I would tend to get a lot of looks haha I’d walk across the street to get my groceries and they would give me like 5-10 plastic bags when I’m like “I can fit like 75% of it in my backpack and these two bags”.
I’ve always wondered why they use so many as well! I assume it’s each group of items that a single shopper pulls goes into one bag and they have one shopper per like four aisles or something. I have nothing to base that on though, whatever it is it’s a ridiculous amount of bags.
If you get delivery they will sometimes put three or four bags with a single item each all into another bag so they can carry it easier.
I bought refillers for ball pen to “reduce plastic” and its packing has plastic equivalent of an entire new pen
It also has alot of palm-oil in it so it is another reason to avoid it.
Even WWF doesn’t think avoiding palm oil is a good solution. Not short term and definitely not long term
https://wwf.panda.org/discover/our_focus/food_practice/sustainable_production/palm_oil/
Palm is the most efficient crop for producing a wide range of fats. Replacing it with some other source of fat will require more land and water, and disrupt nature in another part of the world.
Thank you for the very informative link.
Did not know that.
I always try to avoid it but thanks to this list i at least know which company to trust about it a bit. Scorecard
Still wont buy anything from danone, mars or nestle tho.
Avoiding Nestlé is a good idea anyway. Fuck Nestlé.
And it’s not vegan, and it’s not made from fair cocoa, so two more reasons
It’s milk chocolate (coated at least)… I’ve tried alternatives and frankly white, dark and flavoured vegan chocolates are good enough but there’s nothing close to or as good as milk chocolate so at this point it’s like saying “boycott steak because it’s not vegan”… It’s a fact, sure, but not a reason against it for people who aren’t already vegan, and those who are were boycotting it away, so it’s a reason for nobody?
That said the fair cocoa point is very valid.
Fuck palm oil and any product using it, just like fuck nestle in general.
*Ferrero
I know. Nestle is just kinda the leader of the pack of must get fucked into a black hole and is probably what all these distopiacorps aspire to be
