From December, customers can either drop off their packets at collection points or post them for free for recycling. Walkers is launching the UK’s first recycling scheme for crisp packets - weeks after being bombarded with empty packets in the post. Royal Mail begged environmental campaigners last month to stop sending bags back to the PepsiCo brand, which owns Walkers, as a form of protest because they aren't yet recyclable. Now Walkers has announced the new scheme which is set to be up and running from December.