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
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.
I’m also aware of the amount of plastic waste that passes through my hands.
The difference here being: i notice what is necessary and how much of it is useless extra added on by the manufacturer for advertisement purposes.
The latter is usually 50% and even as bad as 80% in a lot of cases.
I’m not ashamed, i’m dissapointed they are allowed to keep doing this while i’m forced to make all kind of changes (i use forced because they artificially increase the price to stop us from doing things)
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.
Same, it’s pretty damn ridiculous how much trash we generate.
Not good
I bought refillers for ball pen to “reduce plastic” and its packing has plastic equivalent of an entire new pen
At least cellophane is plant based and will bio degrade
I ordered a load of network patch cables recently. They all came packaged individually in sealed plastic bags.
I thought they were called Kinder Bueno only here in Spain
Kinder Bueno - Spain
Kinder Chido - México
Kinder Copado - Argentina
Kinder Bacano - Colombia
Germany, too
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’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.
I can tell you for certain it’s more than two packs of Twix. A lot more.
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. Thickness of 2/10,000 of an inch. Plastic is crazy cheap and efficient compared to other methods.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp2RDu9fw6o
Plastic bags. Full roll is 348 lbs which makes 35,000 bags.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KznKNiXPFxM
If you’re wondering about crude to plastic efficiency…
It takes about 0.4 gallons of crude oil to make one pound of plastic, which means that 11 million metric tons of plastic equates to approximately 9.7 trillion gallons of oil.
https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2021/09/24/plastic-pollution-oil-spill/
A nice copout answer from the US Government lol.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is unable to determine the specific amounts or origin of the feedstocks that are actually used to manufacture plastics in the United States.
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=34&t=6
This oil website even busts their chops on it lol.
This fact itself raises questions such as, “How many barrels of oil go into plastic packaging?” A question that is quite difficult to answer. The Energy Information Administration absolutely refuses to answer it, saying that it collects no data in this segment. Yet data from a few years ago, when the EIA still collected information about this, shows that in 2010 some 191 million barrels of LPG and NGL were used for the production of plastics along with 412 billion cu ft of natural gas. The liquids amount constituted about 2.7 percent of the country’s total petroleum consumption. Most of the natural gas used in plastics production was used as a fuel rather than feedstock.
Plastics production accounts for about 4 percent of global oil production. That’s according to figures for 2012, so now it may well be higher.
Some interesting glass to plastic energy efficiency info, not discounting their completely different use cases.
The total energy required to produce, package, and transport a 16 oz. PET container is 32 MJ compared to 34 MJ for a 16 oz. glass container – virtually the same. Producing a pound of plastic resin, however, uses nearly nine times the energy of producing a pound of glass. These comparisons assume the use of virgin glass.
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.
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 🤷
