Plastic.

[Workingman]

I won a box of Cadbury's Creations in a local raffle last night and every item was in its own plastic / aluminium foil wrapper. Why?

Chocolate does not go "off" for months, even years. It does not need to be plastic wrapped.

It's the same with many items we all buy every day - crisps, biscuits, cakes, bread, choccy bars. These things fly off the shelves in days. They do not need months long 'best before' or 'sell by' dates, but there they are, all wrapped in plastic. The plastic we bin rather than recycle (if we can be bothered).

We once had cellophane wrappings -a natural and biodegradable film infused in paper - for things like crisps, biscuits etc. now we have plastic. ???

Hell in a hand cart. This crap enters our global environments -air, sea and land. Worry not, though, our fossil fuelled EV SUVs will save us. Net-Zero.

[cruiser2]

When I go to the supermarket shopping I take two hessian shopping bags. I have some of the plastic bags but onluy use them in emergencies.

I see several people buy new plastic bags when they are shopping at supermarkets. Should be like USA and have paper bags. Some stores are now
only issuing paper bags. Primark is one.

[medsec222]

Same here Cruiser. I also have several of the hessian-type bags which are strong enough to cope with jars, bottles, etc. I have a plastic bag for life which I keep especially for packing the meat, chicken etc. I find it works very well and if I can avoid buying anything in plastic I will do so.

[miasmum]

I just had to say that those boxes of Celebrations are made for sharing and I really dont fancy other peoples hands all over my chocolates Have you seen the way people sort through those boxes looking for their faves

[Workingman]

Nobody is suggesting that sweets in selection boxes - Creations, Quality St, Heroes, Roses etc. - should not be wrapped just that they do not need to be in individual foil backed plastic pockets which are almost impossible to recycle.

There was a time when they were all wrapped in foil with maybe a paper sleeve and they were perfectly safe... those things were easy to recycle.

[saundra]

well Quality street just isent the same now
In awfull paper
But I agree everything is plastic an d not need ed

[miasmum]

I noticed in Tesco today the tins of Quality Street actually state 'wrapped in paper'