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To: Walkers Crisps
Walkers Crisps: clean up your mess
Walkers are still producing millions of pieces of single use plastic every single day.
They’ve signed up to a plastic pact to massively reduce the waste they produce by 2025, but so far have made hardly any progress at all.
Walkers need to immediately do more to help combat the plastic crisis.
- Introduce minimum 30 per cent recycled content asap
- Make all packaging compostable, reusable, or easily recyclable asap
- Massively increase the number of recycling points across the UK, and put them in convenient public places.
Why is this important?
As a nation we consume approximately 6 billion crisp packets every year with the vast majority of those being made from plastic. They don’t rot. That's an awful lot of landfill and poison for the environment. Crisp packets have been found on beaches intact more than 33 years later. Imagine during that time the effect on wildlife and the environment.
While Walkers committed to the UK’s first crisp packet recycling scheme back in 2018 following a huge campaign by 38 Degrees, it’s simply not good enough with only 0.38% of all Walkers crisp packets being recycled in that time. It’s time they looked towards a better solution.
Ideally Walkers should stop producing waste plastic, but until they change their production methods, Walkers should introduce thousands more recycling points in more convenient places such as supermarkets and train stations.
