Are You Mindful When Unwrapping a Bar of Chocolate? - Seite 2

Recycling is easier if the paper wrappers are scrunched together in a ball and added to other paper or placed in a paper envelope. Although the previous cellulose wrappers are home-compostable, they are unrecyclable for the kerbside recycling scheme, unlike the foil wrappers.

3.Mondelēz
Responsible for brands such as Cadbury, Milka, Green & Black's and Toblerone, the company is currently on track to achieve 100 per cent recyclable packaging by 2025.

By 2050 Mondelēz, a member of the UK Plastics Pact, aims to reach net zero waste and support the development of a circular economy by 2050, via three core company beliefs: less packaging, better packaging and improved systems.

Last year the company announced Cadbury Dairy Milk would be committed to using 30 per cent recycled plastic throughout the UK and Ireland, which will see more than 28 million sharing bars more sustainably wrapped by the end of this year.

Mondelēz has also committed to more than £215m investment in sustainability initiatives for its plastic products.

4.Tony's Chocolonely
Tony's Chocolonely started making great strides in the sustainability of its cocoa supply since its inception in 2005, by only operating in Ghana and Ivory Coast to protect the communities against slave labour.

The firm overhauled its wrappers in 2012, in favour of uncoated, recycled FSC-certified paper, made from a combination of recycled and FSC-certified paper, the latter from sustainably managed forests.

The Dutch company has also ensured its packaging protects its smaller Tiny Tony's chocolates as well as the environment, via collaboration with paper expert Sappi.

The pouches are the result of brainstorming with Sappi who spent eight months overseeing the process before the Sappi Guard Nature MS was selected due to its paper-based and heat-sealable barrier paper.

Conclusion
While these are great steps from the FMCG sector, progression remains slow, despite the urgency for rapid transition. Sustainability and the climate agenda were placed on the back burner during the disruption of the pandemic when we witnessed major pharmaceutical companies brandishing newly developed vaccines in a bid to stop Covid-19 spreading.

If the same attention was lavished on implementing the systemic change necessary to combat the climate crisis and leverage innovative partnerships for more robust solutions, the plastic crisis would have a solid chance of losing the war against pollution. However, this outcome cannot be sugar-coated as time is of the essence and more companies still need to be held accountable for their processes.