KitKat Is Ditching Plastic Packaging In Japan For Paper You Can Turn Into Origami

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While companies all over the world bid to reduce their use of single-use plastic to become more sustainable, KitKat has just won the game by turning its packaging into origami.

Back in January, food and drink giant Nestlé, which owns KitKat, revealed it would commit to exclusively issuing 100 per cent recyclable packaging for its products by 2025.

As part of that, Nestlés Japanese branch has launched new packaging for the popular miniature KitKat chocolate bars, which will now be wrapped in paper, instead of plastic.

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Nestlé Japan has even updated the packaging to instruct users on how to fashion the wrapping, after enjoying the snack, into the classic origami crane, which is a traditional Japanese messenger of thoughts and wishes. Its hoped this means the paper will remain in use for longer, rather than being thrown away immediately after consuming the snack.

Switching to an environmentally friendly wrapping on the miniature KitKat multipacks in Japan alone – which happens to be the biggest market for KitKats, of which about 4 million are sold every day—is expected to cut down on roughly 380 tons of plastic each year, Statista reports.

As per Fast Company, the environmentally friendly shift will launch later this month with the most popular KitKat mini flavours – including the original, matcha and otona no amasa, which means sweetness for adults and is essentially a darker chocolate taste which is slightly more bitter – coming out first.

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Next September, the brand will roll out the paper packaging into its normal-sized KitKat multipacks, before going on to release single-layer paper wrappers for individual KitKats in 2021.

Meanwhile, here in the UK, Waitrose is doing its bit to reduce plastic waste by asking customers to bring their own containers in a new trial.

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