Eco-box: Chocolates Goes Green
October 29, 2010
A very large grocery store chain in the UK, Marks & Spencer, is now selling a line of Swiss chocolates in a compostable package. Yes, it means after eating all the chocolates, you can throw away the box, without guilt, onto the compost pile.
They say it completely disintegrates in 3 weeks because of the bio-plastic it is made from.
It will also dissolve in water. Oh yes, and the outer box is made of cardboard with natural materials that can be put into any garden heap.
Call me skeptical, but I threw away a Sun Chips biodegradable bag into my compost 6 months ago and it looks fresh as a daisy in there! So, I have my doubts, but I’m willing to keep an open mind. Anybody care to send me one?
Course Facilitator at Chocolate University Online
Bryn worked for nearly 10 years in a research and product development for Ambrosia Chocolate Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Now she develops all of the CUO lessons and coaches the members of the Primal Chocolate Club.
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Hi Bryn, I’m in the UK but suspect we are not allowed to post chocolate to the USA. But, I could test it for you in our garden compost. I don’t understand why thy started with chocolate wrappers. If they’d chosen something lika vegetable they could have built a recipe round it and we could cook the wrapper as part of the dish.