CRISP giant Walkers is to offer a free recycling scheme to customers after hundreds of Brits put pressure on the firm. Last week, Royal Mail asked people to stop posting the empty crisp packets back to Walkers as a protest against its use of non-recyclable packets.

Walkers has announced it is launching a recycling scheme for crisp packets following weeks of backlash from campaigners who had started posting their empty packets back to the manufacturer. The new scheme, in partnership with recycling firm TerraCycle, will launch in December and allows customers to drop off any type of crisp packet (it doesn’t have to be Walkers) to hundreds of collection points up and down the country.

Walkers has announced a new recycling scheme two weeks after Royal Mail asked anti-plastic campaigners to stop posting empty crisp packets without envelopes. From December fans of the savoury snack company can post used packets in envelopes free of charge, directly to a recycling company. All brands of crisp packets will be accepted as part of the deal.

The crisp maker Walkers has announced plans for a recycling scheme for its bags. It has called it "the UK's first nationwide recycling scheme for crisp packets". It comes after a pretty unusual campaign - you might remember hearing about people posting crisp packets. Yep, crisp packets!

After environmental campaigners clogged up postboxes by sending their crisps packets to Walkers, the crisp manufacturer has announced the UK’s first nationwide recycling scheme for crisp packets. In case you missed it, people were sending Walkers their old crisp bags because they couldn’t be easily recycled.

Walkers is to launch the UK's first nationwide recycling scheme for plastic crisp bags - after Royal Mail begged environment campaigners to stop posting used packets to the snacking giant. The new initiative will kick off in December, with full details to follow ahead of time.

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.

Walkers is to launch a nationwide recycling scheme for crisp packets following calls for the company to introduce environmentally friendly packaging. The crisp packet recycling scheme - the first nationwide initiative of its kind in the UK - is due begin in December, Walkers has announced. A campaign that saw environmentalists sending empty crisp packets back to Walkers using its freepost address garnered attention last month and led Royal Mail to plead with activists to put the packs in envelopes as failure to do so would cause delays to the mail sorting system.