Each bar is wrapped in cellophane, which are then wrapped in the normal outer packaging. To make the 4 pack, they simply took 2x two packs and put them on a cardboard tray,and then wrapped those.
I don’t think I’ve ever gone through so much unwrapping for candy.
According to this it takes about 50 tons of PE granules to make about 40 Kilometers of clingfilm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVYpmXRHu00
Moar plastic manufacturing. Thickness of 2/10,000 of an inch. Plastic is crazy cheap and efficient compared to other methods.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp2RDu9fw6o
Plastic bags. Full roll is 348 lbs which makes 35,000 bags.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KznKNiXPFxM
If you’re wondering about crude to plastic efficiency…
https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2021/09/24/plastic-pollution-oil-spill/
A nice copout answer from the US Government lol.
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=34&t=6
This oil website even busts their chops on it lol.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/How-Much-Crude-Oil-Does-Plastic-Production-Really-Consume.html
Some interesting glass to plastic energy efficiency info, not discounting their completely different use cases.
https://ecologycenter.org/plastics/ptf/report1/
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=LVYpmXRHu00
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=Pp2RDu9fw6o
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=KznKNiXPFxM
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Only the individual bar wrappings were the standard clear plastic (stronger and more rigid than cling film), the two and four pack wrappers were the folk-like wrappers that you would see on Kit-Kats and the like.
Interesting, but none of these actually answered my question.
Do the math yourself. The answer is there lol.