Mars bars wrappers to be made of paper.

Maybe the paper is like grease proof, so not as porous. They are boxed and usually wrapped in cling film when stored and transported. Vermin hopefully should be controlled around food products. Some paper products are made from compostable material. There is a film used on a vegan chocolate that can go in with the peelings. It’s all science.

I doesn’t seem that long since they changed to plastic so glad they’re going back to paper.

just another excuse to increase the price and reduce the size have you seen the size they are at the moment almost half the size they were when i was younger

It was waxed paper, I'm sure - perfectly safe and hygienic. We should be minimising the use of plastic packaging everywhere, so, at least, it's a start.

Yet somehow we managed fine with the original paper wrapping!

One way of culling the population of humans I suppose. Especially kids who eat them.

You have hit the nail on the head Gundy, paper is porous so I will not be buying any confection wrapped thus. Think of the number of people who may touch the product before you buy and eat it and think how many of them may have poor hygiene.

Thinking about the switch from plastic to paper.

Paper is porous thereby affecting the quality of the chocolate over time… making it dry out, making it stale, shortening the shelf-life of the product. Also, (hang on to your hat…) infestation of little “vermin” in warehouse storage areas.

All this will be studied during the trial.

Bijou, I still have the jug my Mum collected the milk in. It's blue and white stoneware in a fancy shape and tipped with gold paint on the lip and handle. There is a big chip on the rim but its decorative (and sentimental) and I turn the damaged side to the wall!

I dont like Mars so I don't remember the old style wrapping. I remember Cadburys were silver paper then a sort of paper sleeve.

I would be happy to have Mars bars (or any confectionery) in a paper wrapper. I might stand a chance of opening the wrapping then. The plastic ones won’t open unless you tug them with Herculean strength.

I don't remember milk in a jug except when I stayed with friends who had a dairy.
I do remember the churns though, sitting on top of enormous stone stands (like mounting-blocks).
Full after milking and empty once swapped over..

When I was a child 1920s everything was in brown paper bags even eggs ( you could buy just one). If you bought a lot at the greengrocer you were given a paper carrier bag with the grocers name on it. Butter was taken from a large block and patted into shape. You chose biscuits loose from large tins and tea was taken loose from large chests.
Milkman came round with a churn on a barrow and you took a jug out to be filled with lovely creamy milk.

Oh gosh, I'm craving a Mars Bar now. Haven't had one in ages!
They used to be my favourite, but now I usually have a Kit Kat, not that I buy a chocolate bar very often.

I normally have plain dark Lindt chocolate, but I think I need a change up!

Call me a cynic but I think the wrapper change might be a very convenient way of disguising the fact that they will make a smaller bar?

I wonder how much shrinkage there is over the years. Wagon wheels seemed enormous , maybe scale as I was a child.

Mars candy company is piloting (testing) new paper packaging for candy bars in 500 Tesco stores in the UK.

We don’t have that trial here. UK - make it work so this goes global!
Yum! 😋
USA Gundy

Won't return to the original size I bet even though back to using paper!

chocolate bar wrappers!

I think I am right in saying that most chocolate bars are recyclable at large supermarkets. I save cat food pouches, crisp and sweet packets along with the cellophane type vegetable bags. My local Co-op has a bin.

Paper is a great idea , much easier to rip open . I hope they don’t shrink them further or there won’t be anything to recycle.

grandtanteJE65

What are the wrapped in in the UK?

Here Mars bars are in paper, as they always have been,

Plastic wrappers.

DGS had a pack of smarties last week and they were in a disposable paper wrapper. First time I'd seen one since I was younger (a lot). Good idea.

What are the wrapped in in the UK?

Here Mars bars are in paper, as they always have been,

Oh how I wish I could eat a Mars bar whatever it was wrapped in. I always loved them but since being diagnosed with celiac and a dairy intolerance I am unable to.