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Kelloggs - Wasteful and Greedy
bagnall_2
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Kellogg's should be ashamed.
Take a look at the packaging used to wrap their tiny Special K bars in the pictures above
A huge box full of air and big plastic wrappers full of air and a tiny bar.
Of course this is to make you think you're buying a lot of product for your money (this cost me £1.89 - for 6 bars). they would argue the weight of the product is printed on the box but it's also hugely wasteful of cardboard and plastic, which then fills up our recycling bins.
It reminds me of their "Crunchy Nut Cornflakes", "nut" being in the singular it seems when you open the box!
I won't be buying them again.
Shame on you Kelloggs
Take a look at the packaging used to wrap their tiny Special K bars in the pictures above
A huge box full of air and big plastic wrappers full of air and a tiny bar.
Of course this is to make you think you're buying a lot of product for your money (this cost me £1.89 - for 6 bars). they would argue the weight of the product is printed on the box but it's also hugely wasteful of cardboard and plastic, which then fills up our recycling bins.
It reminds me of their "Crunchy Nut Cornflakes", "nut" being in the singular it seems when you open the box!
I won't be buying them again.
Shame on you Kelloggs
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bagnall
why are you picking on kelloggs? every company that makes these products is the same? packaging is a massive waste and cost to companies, but is driven by consumerism. if the product was in plain white packaging with just ceral bars written on it, it would not be noticed, and not bought. some of the packaging may be deemed wasteful, but is partially driven by machine requirements. it can be hard to pack a bar 100mm long into foil wrap 105mm long, so to reduce product and packaging waste it is easier to make the packaging a little longer. also the product is sold on weight, so you are getting what you pay for. have you noticed how small aero are these days.
regarding crunchy nut corn flakes, they definatley have plenty of nuts in. i know as im an engineer on the plant where they are made.Mortgage £242500 on completion
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Why Kelloggs? It's their cereal bars I bought, not anyone else's and yes Kellogg's are not the only culprits.
Are you trying to tell me that all that air in the box is to enable the packaging machines to work properly? I'm glad you only said partially driven by machine requirements. My father is a packaging machine engineer. It's the greed of the company I'm interested in.
Anyone else feel I am unfairly picking on Kelloggs?0 -
no.. I buy various makes of cereal bars-never had one in such a lot of packaging though.0
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Maybe it is a standard size box, and to make one smaller would involve more packaging waste and the expense of changing or replacing the machines?0
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The cynic in me says that they put them in such packaging so you will think you are getting more for your money, so they will make more sales.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0
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I totally agree with the point the OP is making.
Another scandalous waste of packaging is those premium biscuits like Boasters where you get only 9 of them laid up 3x3 in a moulded plastic tray. The tray is purposely designed to make the packet look more substantial.
If they just put the 9 biscuits in a stack like a normal pack of Digestives it would show the product to be the poor value that it actually is.
The government need to start holding the manufacturers to account for this instead of dumping all the blame and responsibility on the consumer.0 -
Tell them not us.Kellogg's should be ashamed.
Take a look at the packaging used to wrap their tiny Special K bars in the pictures above
A huge box full of air and big plastic wrappers full of air and a tiny bar.
Of course this is to make you think you're buying a lot of product for your money (this cost me £1.89 - for 6 bars). they would argue the weight of the product is printed on the box but it's also hugely wasteful of cardboard and plastic, which then fills up our recycling bins.
It reminds me of their "Crunchy Nut Cornflakes", "nut" being in the singular it seems when you open the box!
I won't be buying them again.
Shame on you Kelloggs0 -
The bar itself looks quite similar to the muesli bars Lidl sell at 99p for 6. They are equally low fat and calorie and the cranberry one is really yummy and absolutely packed with dried cranberries. Difference with these being they are longer and thinner, and come in more appropriately sized packaging. It's nice knowing Lidl (and Aldi) products will actually fill the packaging.0
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I think the op is making a valid point.
I would like to know why we need items such as cereal bars packaged in any box, large or small. They are, after all, just a kind of confectionary bar marketed as 'breakfast substitute'. You wouldn't expect to buy a chocolate bar in a box. Unless there is a good reason, it does appear to be wasteful to precious resources.
Of course Kellogs aren't alone, but it wouldn't be practical to list every culprit here - in fact, arguably, that could mean most manufacturers - the worst being the toy ones!0
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