Standard chocolate bars Mars, Snickers and Milky Means will now not be packaged in plastic, as an alternative transferring to recyclable paper because the Australian producer works to change into extra sustainable.
Producer Mars Wrigley Australia plans to chop greater than 360 tonnes of plastic from its chain - sufficient to stretch from Melbourne to London and again - as soon as it shifts to paper-based packaging in April.
The packaging will have the ability to be recycled in conventional kerbside recycling bins and will likely be marked with a big brand telling individuals to recycle it.
The present plastic packing used on the chocolate bars goes to landfill as soon as it's thrown out.
The brand new packaging has been developed in trials at Mars Wrigley's manufacturing website in Ballarat in regional Victoria and required a re-engineering of equipment to accommodate the brand new materials.
The Australian rollout is the primary of Mars Wrigley's 50 markets to make the sustainable transfer.
Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation chief government Chris Foley has stated the transfer units "a wonderful instance to all companies in Australia".