Galaxy Milk Chocolate Christmas Collection Box, 244g

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Founded in England in the 1930s, it has grown into a global organisation with 37 much-loved brands sold in over 100 countries. This year, Mars Wrigley launches a rebrand across the complete range of Celebrations, modernising the look and feel to excite consumers. Whilst every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the product information provided, products and their ingredients may change. We need to get back to basics because now everything is just in plastic - companies are the ones who are causing this issue. With the COP26 summit in Glasgow creating a global conversation on climate change, for many it is now important to make small changes in every day life to be more sustainable.

So for example, if some of the large organisations started offering refills, which I think would be brilliant - is it genuinely possible for them to be able to do that with a supply chain which is ethical and genuine? The inside tray is made from cardboard which is great to see, the only plastic included is the wrappers for the individual chocolate bars. Selection boxes have developed massively in the past couple of decades and now it's not only chocolate packaged up in Christmas plastic – chewy sweets, jewellery, cosmetics and candles were also presented in shiny festive wrapping. However, it doesn't mean that the special doesn't give important information because it certainly does.

There were two varieties of this box at Wilko but I opted for the classic all milk chocolate box – both look the same in terms of the cardboard exterior. This special was a perfect way to give other characters more of a spotlight and in this case it was Mantis.

Galaxy Smooth Milk: Sugar, Skimmed Milk Powder, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Milk Fat, Palm Fat, Lactose, Whey Permeate (from Milk), Emulsifier ( Soya Lecithin), Vanilla Extract. The exterior box is cardboard but what makes this stand out is the removal of the inside tray entirely – it simply has a perforated edge to open the box.

In total, the box includes eight full-size chocolate cups so I was content with the amount of product – the large plastic tray does seem somewhat futile in this packaging though.

Selection boxes have developed massively in the past couple of decades and now it's not only chocolate packaged up in Christmas plastic - chewy sweets, jewellery, cosmetics and candles were also presented in shiny festive wrapping.

However, inside each packet was a smaller tray to keep the Reese's chocolate peanut cups in place – unlike the larger tray, these were made from white cardboard. The Reese's selection box really stood out on the shelf, opting for a bright orange cardboard exterior and only a subtle nod to Christmas with a strange DJ Santa illustration.

In total, the box includes eight full-size chocolate cups so I was content with the amount of product - the large plastic tray does seem somewhat futile in this packaging though. There were two varieties of this box at Wilko but I opted for the classic all milk chocolate box - both look the same in terms of the cardboard exterior. This year alone we’ve announced the removal of over 370 tonnes of plastics from products across our businesses in the UK and we will continue to do more as we work towards 100 per cent of our packaging being reusable, recyclable or compostable. It includes full-size versions of their best-sellers - Yorkie, KitKat, KitKat Chunky, Aero, Aero Mint and Fruit Pastilles (this was the only box we purchased with a jelly sweet included).The best box on offer at Wilko in terms of reducing plastic was the Galaxy Christmas collection box.