Crunch time for Walkers over non-recyclable crisp packets
by Rebecca Smithers from Environment | The Guardian on (#3W78Y)
Petition calls on snacks firm to end use of plastic in the 11 million packets a day produced at Leicester factory
The UK's biggest crisp brand, Walkers, will come under pressure this week to explain why it is helping to fuel the plastic waste littering the streets and seas by producing more than 7,000 non-recyclable crisp packets every minute.
A new analysis carried out by campaign organisation 38 Degrees has found that Walkers is set to produce an additional 28bn plastic crisp packets by 2025 - the date by which the company has pledged to make its crisp packets 100% recyclable, compostable or biodegradable.
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