Anda Phillips, a DWT volunteer and community coordinator, signed up to the snappily-titled KP Snacks, Nuts, Popcorn, Crisps and Pretzels Packet Free Recycling Programme – a partnership between KP Snacks and TerraCycle, a company that specialises in recycling hard-to-recycle materials.

THE people of Ilkley are being encouraged to recycle a variety of materials which cannot be recycled by the local council and would otherwise end up in landfills or incineration. Milestone Design Ltd, an Ilkley based kitchen designer and fitter, and the UK’s first producer of totally green Kitchens of Recycled Content, has signed up to several free recycling programmes offered by TerraCycle, the world leaders in recycling hard-to-recycle waste.

You may or may not be surprised to find out that many of your favourite snacks don’t actually come in packaging that can be easily recycled by local authorities. If you’re not ready to give up your beloved snacks, but still want to reduce your environmental impact, here are schemes to take advantage of. You can drop your Pringles tubes at over 330 Bring Banks across the UK, and your KP popcorn, crisps, nuts and pretzels can be collected by TerraCycle at selected locations, and are then made into watering cans, storage boxes or even outdoor furniture.

A nursery school in Great Baddow, Essex, recently celebrated its 75th birthday with some fun Easter activities and the opening of a new recycling station. The nursery is continuing to support the community well into its 75th year by becoming a Terracycle Recycling Centre.

In honour of World Recycling Day 2022, BRITA has shared 5 recycling tips to help people on the way to reducing landfill waste. [...]

4. Snack responsibly

You can drop your Pringles tubes at over 330 Bring Banks across the UK, and your KP popcorn, crisps, nuts and pretzels can be collected by TerraCycle at selected locations, and are then made into watering cans, storage boxes or even outdoor furniture.

KP Snacks has announced a 410 tonne reduction in plastic packaging in 2021, reducing consumer packaging by 6.8% across a number of brands. KP Snacks has also partnered with TerraCycle® to support the recycling of bagged nuts, popcorn, crisps and pretzels packets nationwide.  With locations around the UK, consumers can drop off their used KP Snacks packs for recycling. Through the TerraCycle® partnership, 13m snack packs have been recycled so far.

A new garden for young people with mental health problems has been made with the help of thousands of recycled crisp packets. The new Wooden Spoon Allotment on the Blakenhall Road Allotment Site in Goodwood, Leicester, includes a ping pong table, four planters, four seedling tables, a picnic table, two benches and four bird nesting boxes all made from recycled material from KP Snacks. The items were made by TerraCycle from recycling collected across the UK, including used packing for nuts, popcorn, crisps and pretzels from KP, which makes its snacks in Ashby.