Easter Eggs

Yes you can buyEaster Eggs which have less packaging. 

REDUCE

• Every year we create 3,000 tonnes of packaging waste at Easter!
• We can reduce this by purchasing eggs without packaging. 

RECYCLED
Where?

• You can include the cardboard packaging in you kerbside recycling along with your paper, drinks cans, food tins, aerosols and plastic bottles.
• You can recycle the aluminium foil through the Green Centre.
• You can recycle the plastic packaging, depending on the category of plastic with Magpie. 

DID YOU KNOW?

• Over 80 million boxed Easter eggs are sold at Easter in the UK each year. 500 million Cadbury creme eggs are produced every year.
• On average, children in the UK get 8.8 Easter eggs every year.
• A survey conducted by UK survey consultants Censuswide has revealed that 91% of UK adults would prefer to purchase carton or cardboard-packaged Easter eggs over plastic.