Gary Lineker opens football pitch made of recycled crisp packets

The Match of the Day presenter unveiled the Walkers project earlier today, which has been built in Leicester to benefit the local community and the environment

Walkers collects 500k crisp packets in recycling scheme

More than 8,500 collection points across the UK have signed up to the initaitive

Walkers takes a bite out of plastic packet waste

The crisp brand is launching a service allowing its snack packets to be posted back and recycled

Walkers to launch recycling scheme for crisp packets

People will be able to post them for free in envelopes to a recycling company or drop off at collection points

‘Walkers must put down the packet on plastic waste’

Campaign organisation 38 Degrees says the company should use more environmentally friendly packaging