Easter eggs have as well most wrapping investigate finds

By Harry Wallop, Consumer Affairs Editor 800AM GMT twenty-seven March 2010

A consult of twelve heading Easter eggs by Jo Swinson, the Liberal Democrat MP, found majority eggs were still sole in huge boxes, with an impracticable have use of of plastic.

While majority chocolate companies had softened their immature certification in new years, all but dual of the eggs were finished in boxes that were at slightest twice the volume of the eggs inside.

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Guylian, the Belgian manufacturer, came out worse from the study, offered an egg that was half a litre in distance (590ml) but finished in a box that would hold some-more than 6 litres (6301ml).

Lindt was usually marginally improved with an egg that took up only 10 per cent of the box.

Sainsbury"s came out tip with an egg that took up scarcely two-thirds of the box.

Ms Swinson pronounced "Consumers are undone with the volume of wrapping enclosed with the products they buy. The costs of additional wrapping are constantly upheld on to consumers.

"In fact, the consumer pays 3 times for additional wrapping once at the checkout (the normal family spends 470 each year on packaging), once for the disposing of rubbish packaging,and once again for the environmental costs."

Many chcolate companies have, in the last dual years, proposed to have Easter eggs or bunnies with minimal packaging, with only the chocolate provide wrapped in foil. These embody Cadburys Eco-Eggs, Lindt chocolate bunnies and Nestls Milkybar vale chocolate cow.

However, as well majority of the customary mid-market eggs, that cost less than 6 or so, destroy to encounter the simple wrapping regulations, set out by the Depatment for Business.

"The Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations, that need producers to extent the volume and weight of wrapping to the minimum volume necessary, are in majority cases not being met," the inform said.

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