Are You Mindful When Unwrapping a Bar of Chocolate?

Were you mindful when unwrapping a bar of chocolate during your favourite Christmas movie?
This question is slightly misleading - I’m not interrogating consumption levels, but rather focusing on the packaging wrapped around your moments of indulgence. While the rustling sound of unwrapping a chocolate bar is satisfying to the senses, the negative impact packaging waste inflicts on the planet is catastrophic.

随着塑料污染的致命组合仍然存在重大的环境危害和巧克力的销售，预计将在未来五年内增长13％，达到66.6亿英镑（根据Mintel进行的巧克力市场研究），糖果生产商终于消除了不可持续的包装。随着主要巧克力制造商的压力增加，他们正在转向更具创新的解决方案，以建立更大的问责制，以关闭循环，支持循环经济并保护地球。

谁在打击塑料危机的斗争？
Here are four chocolate manufacturers who are leading the way by demonstrating how packaging innovations and improved systems can strike sweet success without being detrimental to the planet.

1. Mars Wrigley
近年来，随着公司努力与利益相关者需求一致的系统性变化，近年来，火星的可持续发展团队的工作要多于休息金博宝怎么注册或为可持续发展团队比赛。Mars Wrigley最近成为揭开其纸包装的头条新闻，这将是明年4月推出时可回收的，这标志着原始塑料包装纸的结尾。

The move will see Mars, Snickers and Milky Way bars encased in paper packaging, a goal which has been three years in the making, to reduce single-use plastic.

Once the transition is fully implemented, Mars Wrigley predicts it will remove 360 tonnes of plastic from its value chain, which, if stretched out, is the equivalent of flying from Melbourne to London and back.

Now if only it stretched all the way to Mars…

2.Nestlé
在过去的圣诞节中，雀巢（Nestlé）又回到了它的根源，并引入了优质街头巧克力的纸包装纸，该公司的目标是取代全球25亿个个人箔和纤维素包装纸。

1936年，第一次选择优质的街道各种巧克力被包裹在纸上，现在的传统已经回到了纸上（现在只有一个纸包），这将是可回收的。

如果将纸包装纸一起在球中串在一起并添加到其他纸张或放入纸信封中，则回收更容易。尽管以前的纤维素包装纸是可以进行家庭组成的，但与箔纸包装器不同，它们对于孔子回收方案而言是不可挽回的。

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.

到2050年，英国塑料契约的成员Mondelēz的目标是通过三种核心公司信念到2050年到2050年的循环经济发展：较少的包装，更好的包装和改进的系统。

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.托尼的巧克力
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.

该公司在2012年对包装纸进行了大修，转而由未涂层的FSC认证的纸张，由可回收和FSC认证的纸组合制成，后者是可持续管理的森林。

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.

这些小袋是与萨皮（Sappi）进行头脑风暴的结果，萨皮（Sappi）在选择萨皮警卫自然女士（Sappi Guard Nature MS）之前花费了八个月的时间来监督该过程，因为其基于纸张和可热的屏障纸。

结论
尽管这些步骤与快速消费品部门相距甚远，但尽管有快速过渡的紧迫性，但进展仍然很慢。金博宝怎么注册当我们目睹主要的制药公司挥舞新开发的疫苗以阻止Covid-19-19-nation Covid-19时，可持续性和气候议程在大流行期间被放在后燃烧器上。

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.

Ruth Smith is a Consultant – Sustainable Business at Acre UK, specialising in the food and beverage space. During her time at Acre, Ruth has focused on the full lifecycle of sustainability roles and skillsets for companies such as Finlay’s, Marine Stewardship Council, Greene King and Compassion in World Farming. Ruth’s team has placed roles such as the Sustainability Reporting Manager for Greene King and Head of Sustainability and Climate Change Manager for Finlay’s, to address the pressing issues in animal welfare, food sustainability and agricultural supply chain improvements.

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