Easter Egg packaging and the environment...?

There is no plastic in most of them these days, as already explained.

This environmental concern about impact of Easter eggs packaging would be funny if it was not outright stupid. Have a look at how many different types of water you can find in supermarkets in 500ml bottles all year long. Water. As if Ireland was in the middle of Sahara.

If you want to look cool regarding to sustainability and environmental issues you might wanna educate yourself before you start inventing issue which in grand scale of things is pretty much negligible.

All Cadburys chocolate is the soy-based crud since Kraft took over.

But there is absolutely no way that you're going to convince people to replace them with boiled eggs (painted with plastic paints or not); or indeed anything else. And if the pricing was brought back up to the premium it once held, people would expect the frills - literally - in the form of single use plastic ribbons, plastic protective shells, fake grass, all the other crap that goes in to "premium easter eggs"

If seasonal chocolate is something worth targeting, selection boxes with their pointless plastic liners would be much higher up any list; or individually plastic wrapped ones like Roses/Heroes/Celebrations, or Valentines Day boxes with plastic flowers and ribbons on them, or indeed basically every other chocolate-based holiday product out there.

But this still seems like someone has decided to have a rant without any real idea of what they were ranting about - as we see with the OPs confusion over plastic; ranting about the one of many chocolate holiday products that have, generally, gone from a hideous plastic mess to very recyclable packaging in a very short period of time.