How can I reuse or recycle … excessive Easter egg packaging?

Thu 27 Apr 2006

How can I reuse or recycle … excessive Easter egg packaging?

Categories: Easter, food and the like, items, packaging

Easter eggs Unless you’re very good and don’t eat every scrap of chocolate as soon as it passes the threshold of your home, I think we’re about a week late on this one. But anyway…

Every year we ask people likely to buy us Easter eggs not to buy us Easter eggs but we still end up with one or two, and the packaging makes us want to cry.

I have been known to wear the cardboard bit as a hat (photos available on request) so that’s that dealt with, but what can be done with all that molded yet flimsy plastic nonsense?

(Photo by Vierdrie, c/o sxc.hu)

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The ones my kids tend to get weren’t actually that flimsy.

I found the bowl shape you get is good for holding small quantities of paint. I used them when I was touching up some paintwork in my lounge and the kids use them if they’re fighting over the paint pots.

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Great idea! I guess you just have to be careful when carrying them, eh?

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Not a suggestion but a thought

If the eggs were solid chocolate, you wouldn’t need any of that protective packaging

I suggest we start a campaign for solid chocolate eggs on environment grounds!

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I think the best solution to this mess is to *really* push your friends and relatives not to buy you any chocolate eggs. The amount of waste that the packaging alone creates is obscene.

If it’s really that important to you, just buy big blocks of chocolate for people. Make it Fair trade though :)

If you still want it egg shaped, melt the blocks of chocolate and use the plastic egg holder bits from last years eggs as a mold.

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Oxfam reckon an average 200g chocolate egg comes with 54g of card and 2g of foil.

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i am currently workign on a design project to design easter egg packaging.. i have made a note of all your complaints and concerns, any more would be very much appreciated! would help me with my project. thanx!

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This packaging is ridiculous! I am getting to my eggs now (yay!) but what an absolute waste!

They used to have the extra chocolate goodies (buttons, mini eggs) INSIDE the main egg (which I loved! Why have they stopped doing that?) but now they have them outside they have doubled the size of the packaging.

1) Put the extra goodies inside the main egg (this is a treat!)

2) make the boxes half the size

3) reduce price

Simple!

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I save old candy wrappers and When I babysit my little siter I will print paper dolls of online (makingfriends.com)and trace there clothes onto the candy wrappers then just cut them out fro cute candy wrapper clothes! This works great wit h seasonal wrappers with pictures on them!

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