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.
Walkers has been inundated with empty crisp packets sent by consumers calling for the company to use environmentally friendly packaging. 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.
Walkers has agreed to offer a free national recycling scheme to stop millions of empty crisp packets ending up in landfill in the UK every year after consumers heaped pressure on it to change its plastic packaging. A social media campaign asking crisp manufacturers to make their packaging recyclable led to
Royal Mail issuing a plea to members of the public last week to put empty crisp packets in an envelope before posting them back to the company.
Manufacturer to collect and repurpose packaging after campaign against firm’s waste.
Walkers has agreed to offer a free national recycling scheme to stop millions of empty crisp packets ending up in landfill in the UK every year after consumers heaped pressure on it to change its plastic packaging. A social media campaign asking crisp manufacturers to make their packaging recyclable led to
Royal Mail issuing a plea to members of the public last week to put empty crisp packets in an envelope before posting them back to the company.
Last month, PotatoPro reported on a
consumer protest in the United Kingdom to convince snack manufacturer Walkers, a brand of Pepsico to come up with a better packaging for its potato chips.
The protest included an online petition that was signed by over 300.000 people and a call to mail empty crisp packages back Walkers.
In a response, Walkers now has announced that it will launch a nationwide recycling scheme for crisp packets in the United Kingdom.
People will be encouraged to either drop off their packets at one of the hundreds of public access collection points that will be developed all around the country or alternatively post them for free directly to TerraCycle for recycling.
