The UK's postal service is urging environmental campaigners to stop sending empty potato chip bags without an envelope. This saw an upswing after the launch of a campaign urging the country's most popular chip producer to ditch its plastic packaging.
The online campaign, which has been signed by more than 310,000 people, calls on the PepsiCo-owned British chip manufacturer Walkers to make its plastic packaging more environmentally friendly. Campaigners have been posting pictures of themselves mailing their empty bags of chips, or crisps as they are known in the UK, through the Royal Mail with the hashtag #PacketInWalkers.
Walkers, which produces 11 million bags of potato chips daily, has said that it plans to make its packaging plastic-free by 2025. A Walkers spokesperson has said: "We have received some returned packets and recognize the efforts being made to bring the issue of packaging waste to our attention. The returned packets will be used in our research, as we work towards our commitment of improving the recyclability of our packaging."
Source: edition.cnn.com
