Why are babybels wasting plastic?

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It just seems so stupid. There’s so much in the news about trying to reduce plastic tat, and yet I can’t buy a bag of 6 babybels without a little plastic tray in them.

Good point. They’re wrapped in wax, they don’t need plastic!

Id be more worried about the amount of plastic ingested when eating the actual babybel

I know, the plastic wrappers are bad enough, but the Mini Melters are ridiculous.

I was just thinking this! We've had like four now and aren't going to use any of them.

Because the majority of general public would think that it's unhygienic to not have it wrapped even though it's in a wax.

Write to them and ask them. Seriously.
Supermarkets have done very little to reduce plastic packaging, hoping that we've all forgotten about it as it's not on the tv every 5 seconds at the moment.

I was thinking this very thing. And composed a complaint email in my head that I haven’t sent. Also that the melters are pointless as most children who eat babybel are small I imagine and don’t need hot melty cheese.

The mini melters are shite, babybels solidify pretty quickly so useless as a dip. But we eat a lot of babybels in this house so I've ended up with millions of the little trays. DD has them in her play kitchen so they will be used for something at least

I was just going to write what raspberryk did!

YABU, you should be more annoyed about them being individually wrapped in wax. It's not beeswax. It's petrochemical based wax so basically plastic.

I thought exactly the same thing! More bloody plastic. Yanbu!

I was thinking last night when trying to buy Dylon, their dye used to be in a sealed bag in a box, with a paper leaflet inside. Now they use 'pods' covered in plastic film.

Am trying not to need to buy dye, and make the colour I want from my old ones (in boxes).

And Higgidy pies. Wrapped multiple times, plastic and cardboard.

I agree and encouraging you to 'collect' them all 🙄

Erm. ...I'm missing something, what tray? Baby bels are wrapped in wax, then plastic then sold in a plastic net type bag aren't they? I mean they're wasteful but ours don't come with a tray.

They now come with a small plastic tray to melt them in the microwave. Completely pointless. Luckily our local shop sells bags with the tray and without. It's one thing to keep putting your product in the same package as always but to actually add more plastic is bonkers!

The atrocity in question

I commented on that silly little pastic thing the other day........ as i was reaching for my 5th babybel.

I think it’s because wrapping things in plastic numerous times creates the perception of it being a higher value / treat item (that they can charge more for) when at the end of the day it’s just a few little blobs of cheese innit.

YABU to be concerned about a bit of plastic in comparison to the environmental impact of the cheese.

Yeah op you can't be concerned about one thing unless you're concerned about anything!

Everything *

Ours come in a net that goes in the recyclables.

Here’s an idea. Buy a block of cheese. Cut it up. Eat it. No need to engage with the little red plastic monsters at all.

Sorry, misunderstood

Thought that they now came in a pot instead of the net!