An average 25 per cent of the most popular Easter eggs we buy are made up of packaging.

An investigation by Which? Found cardboard and plastic wrappings take up a quarter of the total weight.

And according to Which? Thornton's Classic Large Egg takes up a whopping 36 per cent in packaging.

Previously chocolate eggs made headlines for the amount of rubbish they added to landfill at Easter but manufacturers have now made amends.

Almost all the packaging looked at can be recycled with the exception of chocolate bar wrappers and plastic windows.

And the bigger the foil ball the easier it is to recycle so no one need feel guilty about tucking into a giant Easter egg this year.