Quality Street’s greener sweets

SWEET lovers will soon be noticing a change to their boxes of Quality Street.

The twist wrappers on the chocolates are to be made from paper instead of plastic as Nestle switches to greener packaging in the coming months.

The confectionery giant will also be wrapping KitKats with plastic that is 80 per cent recycled.

Replacing the cellulose-foil Quality Street wrappers on nine of the 11 sweets will mean billions fewer bits of plastic in its supply chain.

The other two sweets use just foil and will stay the same.

Nestle said that, unlike cellulose, the new wrappers break down easily and are accepted in household recycling.