Karen Cabral

1-21-19
Hudson
English/1A
Global Impact research

Eggo waffles were started in San Jose, California. Frank Dorsa the inventor of Eggo waffles had
the grand idea of creating the waffles, freezing them, and then being packaged to consumers
globally. The Eggo Waffle brand is owned by company Kellogg. When Kellogg bought the
Eggo brand they had made a new catch phrase for it as well as everyone now knows it as ‘LEggo
My Eggo’. Also very known as the favorite food of Eleven on Stranger Things on Netflix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggo

According to statistics over 49.56 million americans had consumed Eggo waffles but that’s only
for the regular kind of Eggo waffle. The brand Kellogg has produced many more different kinds
of waffles or pancakes or breakfast sandwiches or french toast from the brand Eggo. Just from
the different types of waffles over 116.03 million consumers eat products (including waffles)
branded from Eggo’s regularly.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/279375/us-households-brands-of-frozen-waffles--pancakes--fr
ench-toast-consumed/

Original name in 1953: Froffles

^Changed the name in 1955: Because from almost all the feedback the waffles had an eggy taste
to it, which caused Eggo.
Where are they made: The Eggo Waffle plant is located in Rossville, Tennessee
When did Kellogg officially buy Eggo?: 1968 and in 1972 when they introduced the classic
slogan “L’Eggo my Eggo”
https://phsinverter.com/where-are-eggo-waffles-made/

Usually when you get the Eggo’s it comes in a box and inside the box the waffles are contained
into plastic bags containing the waffles. Cardboard boxes are very easy to recycle, but most
people are just too lazy to recycle the cardboard. But the plastic baggies are very easy to be
produced but take years to decompose.
https://lgnsw.org.au/files/imce-uploads/39/paper-and-cardboard.pdf

The cardboard is essentially just recycled paper mushed together to create that material. But
paper is very harmful to the environment because it takes so much energy and water to make.
Also the fact that it has to be bleached as well. The plastic is harmful to the environment because
it can spread harmful toxins into the soil.
https://www.technikpackaging.com/environmental-impact-packaging-materials/

The Fluffy and Goodness of an Eggo Waffle

Ever since this month of January I had been consuming Eggo waffles daily every morning when
I eat breakfast. ​I wanted to see if the packing of the brand Eggo is bad for the environment and to
my knowledge I had figured that the packing was in fact bad for the environment because with
the different things that we had learned in science class about greenhouse gases and carbon
dioxide​. I knew that the packaging wasn’t going to be the best for the environment.

The packaging is 2 different types. They put the already made waffles into plastic sealed bags so
you can put them in the freezer. But when you buy it as a whole the bags are inside this big
cardboard box. It depends on the amount of waffles there are inside to see how big the box is.
Right now we’re going off the box they sell at a local Costco. There are 72 frozen waffles inside
the big box, meaning there are 9 plastic baggies inside the box, each baggie containing 8 waffles.
The plastic isn’t a really harmful producer unlike the cardboard. The plastic takes half the time
and half the produce as whole, but when you try to recycle it it takes a long time. ​The plastic
baggies will take up to 500 to 1,000 years to decompose. It takes plastic so long to decompose
because the plastic isn’t always in light which doesn’t allow the chains of the plastic to crack and
break down into “microscopic synthetic granules” (Business Ethics). ​The cardboard on the other
hand takes longer to produce and causes more harmful chemicals to go into the air. But
cardboard is able to be decomposed a lot more quickly. Also with the plastic, when it’s
decomposing it also has a bad side effect to it because the harmful toxins go into the soil causing
the soil to be toxic to grow anything. As well as the waffles still have to be transported around
the world which causes even more gases to be produced. ​The waffles are made on a plant in
Rossville, Tennessee and Eggo sells waffles to 25 states in the US, that’s a lot of carbon dioxide
to be produced in the air for the amount of transportation. “A typical passenger vehicle emits
about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year”(United States Environmental Protection
Agency).

Some say that the packaging is in fact a little bit. To that I agree because some foods include a
lot of plastic wrappers and a lot of wasteful things.​ Cardboard is actually somewhat decent
packaging, it’s not the best but it’s not also the worst. Cardboard is made up of recycled paper
which helps reduce the paper. But then the cardboard is recycled causing the old recycled paper
to just be decomposed. But all in all it does help reduce the amount of recycled paper there is,
and it uses it to great extent.
The Eggo waffle is common in the frozen food community but when you learn about how
harmful the fun and colorful packaging is, you start to rethink if you still want to consume the
product.​ The Eggo brand is a part of Kellogg and Kellogg the company itself produces 13.1B in
revenue and 961M in profits. So Kellogg is making a lot of money from all it’s brands that they
have bought as a company. But hopefully the taste of a warm fluffy waffle disgards the fact that
it’s slowly killing the environment.

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ecoparts.com/10-types-of-trash-that-take-the-longest-to-decompose/.

“Plastic Grocery Bags: How Long Until They Decompose?” ​Business Ethics​,
business-ethics.com/2010/09/17/4918-plastic-grocery-bags-how-long-until-they-decompose/.

“Recycling Cardboard - RecyclingWorks.” ​RecyclingWorks Massachusetts​,

recyclingworksma.com/how-to/materials-guidance/recycling-cardboard/.

“Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Typical Passenger Vehicle.” ​EPA​, Environmental Protection
Agency, 10 May 2018,
www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-typical-passenger-vehicle​.

“Kellogg on the Forbes Just Companies List.” ​Forbes​, Forbes Magazine,

www.forbes.com/companies/kellogg/#1ceac36de2ed​.