Carbon footprint of Easter Eggs?
Posted by admin on Mar-21-2010
Someone bought me a big Cadbury Flake theme egg (you can get Mars, Snickers, Manchester United, even Harry Potter themed eggs).
I was amazed at the amount of packaging!
The egg was wrapped in coloured foil, placed in a plastic container (also housing a pack of 3 wrapped flakes) and all wrapped in themed cardboard.
These supermarkets bang on about being green.
. . . when it suits them!
Should "Easter" be re-named "Eater"?
Some offer them with reduced packaging, because they know they will sell, Cadbury say this has saved 2000 trees.
So, here we are 2000+ years since the Son of Man died on a tree to save man and man is introducing Easter to the kids by trying to save trees.
Your thoughts?
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Ah this is true, but couldnt you say the same about other celebrations? Like christmas, thanksgiving, etc, think about how many turkeys/chickens are bred to be slaughtered for that day, think about all that wrapping paper that is made for christmas, all the boxes and packaging gifts come in.
These celebrations are all meant to be in good faith, but instead of having all these traditions, we should all think about the impact their having to the earth and its beings. How much do you think the people in other countries are paid for producing the cocoa for these easter eggs, probaly not much, none of the eggs say anything about fairtrade so i can only imagine they are not.
When i was little i used to use the boxies and plastic to make beds for my teddy bears. (: & you can use the chocolate you dont eat by melting it down and making all sorts of treats like cakes etc. Yay, recycling. (:
And it goes on and on…
We shouldn’t blame the trees too much for Jesus dying on one, because of that incident with killing the fig tree for not bearing fruit. He started it!
Christmas is even worse from an environmental standpoint. They actually go out and kill trees in addition to all the packaging and gift wrapping. Even though the Bible says not to have Christmas trees…
Anyway, Easter should go back to the Pagans, those folks know what bunnies are all about…and maybe bunnycats too.
I know, it’s so stupid, isn’t it? My friend got me one of those Kit-Kat Chunky eggs and I was just like ‘Is it extra fragile or something?’ The box was huge, with a plastic container inside, and only conatining two Kit-Kat Chunkies and a mediocre egg…it’s really dumb.
Peace and lurve.
The allergy medicine Claritin is even worse. They’ve got more cardboard, foil and plastic to hold 4 tiny freaking pills then you can believe. You can buy two Tylenol in a tiny plastic package the size of a matchbook, but Claritin has to have 10 times the packaging.
HEY! Why have you opened your egg BEFORE EASTER SUNDAY???
I think there’s a conspiracy theory in there somewhere, especially when you consider that the cross was . . . MADE OF WOOD!!!
My thought on your question is very clear: you need help from a physchologist. What type of freak are you to go around complaining about an Easter Egg that had too much packaging. Then you basically insult mine and many others religion. Oh by the way, every time you use your computer, you emmit one pound of carbon. So my suggestion is to turn off your computer and go preach to a local supermarket about plastic eggs. Have Fun!
Cardboard and plastic can be recycled, foil can be shredded, melted down and re-used. It’s not just the companies, but how the consumers dispose of the packaging
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