Packaging accounts for up to half of the weight of Christmas chocolate boxes.
Your Christmas chocolates' packaging could account for nearly half of their total weight. In a study conducted by the consumer group Which?, Ferrero Rocher was found to be the worst for excessive wrapping.Ferrero defended its use of packaging, claiming that it is necessary for the protection of its chocolates.Thorntons and Cadbury came in second and third place in the report, but both used mostly recyclable materials.According to the survey, many shoppers are perplexed by the recycling symbols that appear on packaging. Which? discovered that wrapping made up to 42 percent of the total weight of the Ferrero Rocher collection tray,…