Time to tax chocolate manufacturers for wasteful packaging: Yorkshire Post Letters

Sweet manufacturers should be levied with an ‘environmental tax’ on top of a sugar tax to help the Government dispose of the unnecessary packaging.

For instance, Nestle can package two-finger KitKats in silver foil held together by a paper sleeve, and yet they sell the four-finger KitKats in plastic packaging – why?

If you buy multiple packs to save money, they put another layer of plastic around to contain them. Again why?

Is there really a need for all this packaging for Britain’s most popular chocolate snack bar when millions are sold each week to satisfy our liking for this snack?

Biscuits are mainly packaged in plastic these days by manufacturers like McVities who sell millions of chocolate digestives.

Due to the vast volumes of these outer wrappers disposed of each week, councils have to send this waste for incineration, which produces electricity but at a great environmental cost of toxic pollutants being pumped into the air we breathe.

Manufacturers need to look into alternative packaging now, not in five years.

There are the technologies out there produce environmentally-friendly packages which can be composted!

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