12 Apr 2022 --- PepsiCo chip brand Walkers is ending its UK recycling scheme with TerraCycle. The waste management company launched the scheme in 2018 and collected millions of waste chip packets. However, industry experts have criticized the scheme for putting the onus on consumers to meticulously separate trash with no evidence of recycling success ever being made public. PepsiCo maintains that its decision to end the scheme is solely due to advances in flexible plastic recycling infrastructure, saying: “When the scheme started, there were very limited options for recycling crisp packets. Over three years on, there are more than 3,500 flexible plastic collection points in supermarkets across the UK.”
