Easter Eggs - how will you unwrap yours?!
06/04/2007 08:58Consumers are being egged on to choose more chocolate and less packaging in a guide launched this Easter. Hatched by Sustainability South West, the region’s Champion Body for Sustainable Development, the user friendly guide offers top tips for reducing costly, wasteful packaging at home and choosing better packaging in the shops.
“Bad packaging is not only a waste of natural resources and a source of greenhouse gas emissions but a waste of money too - with the average family spending about £470 a year on packaging!” explains Sylvie Channon of charity Sustainability South West. But this free guide unscrambles any confusion about what makes for good packaging. Its cut out and keep cards offer hints on reducing, reusing and recycling packaging – so don’t get egg on your face this Easter, get your hands on the ‘Packaging…unwrapped!’ guide! And don’t forget to be eggsxcellent by recycling the left over Easter egg packaging. You can often recycle cardboard and foil – check with your Local Authority if in doubt.
Download the sustainable packaging guide - 'Packaging...unwrapped!' - here.
Find out more about the wider Pioneers of Packaging initiative here.
© 2007 Sustainability South West - UK registered charity, no. 1106125 - info@sustainabilitysouthwest.org.uk.