Why Is There Plastic In My Chocolate Bar Wrapper?

There’s no denying it, we are a nation of chocolate lovers. In fact, us Brits put away more than 660,000 tonnes of the stuff every year, an average of 11kg per person each year. Unfortunately for the nation’s chocoholics, this habit also feeds into our plastic consumption. The majority of the most popular chocolate bars are wrapped using polypropylene, a plastic commonly used in our food packaging which is made from fossil fuels. It is the same material often foun