Early Hershey's chocolates were wrapped in foil with a branded paper label overtop, but today, they are no longer, and there ...

It's been quite some time since that iconic foil wrapper has graced a Hershey's bar, but what happened to it? Interestingly, there's a reason for this change.

Bakers Candies produces about 2,000 pounds of chocolates daily — each wrapped in color-coded foil wrappers — to delight local, national and international customers in the retail store and ...

Instead of the foil and cellulose wrapping customers are familiar with, the chocolate will instead be packaged in recyclable paper wrappers.

As America loads up on an estimated 600 million pounds of candy for Halloween, some companies are trying to make it easier to recycle all those wrappers.

Instead, the coffee-flavour fondant wrapped in dark chocolate will join the 11 other Quality Street sweets at pick and mix stations across selected John Lewis stores in the UK.

“Candy wrappers like the multi-layered materials with like the foil inside so those are definitely not curbside recyclable either.

But not ALL the wrappers are being changed - two of the chocolates already have foil packaging. These are the green triangle, and the orange chocolate crunch.

As America loads up on an estimated 600 million pounds of candy for Halloween, some companies are trying to make it easier to recycle all those wrappers.

As America loads up on an estimated 600 million pounds of candy for Halloween, some companies are trying to make it easier to recycle all those wrappers.

As America loads up on an estimated 600 million pounds of candy for Halloween, some companies are trying to make it easier to recycle all those wrappers.