There used to be a  loose biscuit stall in Queensgate Market, Huddersfield. But the stall is long gone and the market has closed. The loss of resources like these is frought with issues. 

You can still buy loose buns and cookies at bakers but to put in your tin….

Recycle Biscuit Wrappers

So what to do?  Well, it’s not a perfect answer, but Mc Vities do run a biscuit wrapper recycling scheme. You save up the wrappers and post them off (for free with pre paid labels) and they get recycled. It’s better than binning them. In their own words

“McVitie’s has recently teamed up with recycling experts TerraCycle to launch the McVitie’s Biscuit Wrapper Brigade. Biscuit wrappers are recyclable, but very little mixed plastic recycling is carried out by local council kerb side collections, resulting in millions of biscuit wrappers being sent to landfill. McVitie’s and TerraCycle’s initiative – a first for the industry – encourages consumers to help end this enormous waste of resources by sending in their used biscuit wrappers to be recycled. For more information, visit www.terracycle.co.uk.”

Please note, you need to send shipments that weigh at least 0.12 kg -approximately 50 units of biscuit wrappers.

So if you can’t refuse, at least you can recycle…. more tea vicar?

Recycling

Recycling is not a perfect answer. It does not justify using a product, that lasts forever, to make a throwaway, so-called disposable items. You can read about why we don’t recycle plastic here.