As we approach the scariest, most exciting holiday of the year, many of us find ourselves busily planning, from the type of costume we’ll wear to the parties we’ll attend.
Unfortunately, what we’re not planning is the kind of candy we’ll be buying, and that could lead to an even more horrifying Halloween for the environment than we ever planned.
A Snickers bar here, a Hershey’s there. Candy bars in moderation may not be a danger to our health, but their unclassified packaging is a danger to the environment.
Unlike plastic bottles and cardboard boxes made of a single determined material, the packaging for candy bars often consists of a mixture of materials which form a polypropylene wrapper. According to Earth911, “Because plastic bottles can be recovered easily and economically, and there’s a healthy end-use market for their recovered materials, waste management facilities have an incentive for their collection and processing. However, candy wrappers are usually made up of mixed materials, making the recovery of useful materials difficult and