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ROYAL MAIL HAS asked activist to stop sending their crisp packets without envelopes to the Walkers headquarters.
The postal service’s plea is in response to a campaign to get Walkers to make its packaging fully recyclable.
The campaign was started by the activism group 38 Degrees, who have urged people to send their empty crisp packets back to the manufacturer to protest its use of non-recyclable plastic.
“Why are people posting empty crisp packets back to Walkers? Because every day Walkers is making 11 million bags of crisps that will spend almost one hundred years in a landfill, or worse end up in our oceans,” 38 Degrees posted on Twitter.
A Royal Mail spokesperson has asked anyone taking part in this campaign to use an envelope before posting as it is adding to delays in processing mail.
“If an item is addressed properly and carries the correct postage then Royal Mail is obliged by law to handle and deliver the item to the stated address.
Crisp packets can’t go through the machines, they are not normal mail items, therefore, my hardworking colleagues need to manually sort them, which adds to the time.
“We strongly encourage customers not to post anything into the postal system which is not properly packaged,” a spokesperson said in a statement.
Following the plea from Royal Mail, 38 Degrees has told its followers to “keep posting but use an envelope”.
Walkers says that it is committed to making its packaging 100% recyclable, compostable or biodegradable by 2025.
Over 300,000 people have signed 38 Degrees’ petition calling on Walkers to ditch plastic packaging.
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So let me get this straight …first prize…a fiver. runner up…a tenner???….game devised by ECB.
Im going back to bed with a panadol
Count yourself lucky you don’t have to pay them back!
Only in euro land could this be contemplated.
Mel
Economics 101 – Supply and Demand.
Aa s supply of 20 of something is lower that the supply of 80, demand for the 20 should be higher than the demand for the 80, everything else being equal.
Please note economics is based on the principle of “Everything else being equal”.
However in this case the ECB know the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Does Draghi think hes a celebrity?
Why would anyone WANT his autograph? Misery Broker
Just goes to show the ego of these clowns. Signed by Mario Draghi, I mean flippen hell?!?!
Coz a mint €5 note signed by the chairman of the ecb is worth a heck of a lot more than €5… And you would whine even louder if the nominal value if the prize was bigger.
This is tooooo funny. €5 for the winner with it signed by one of the Mario Brothers and the loser gets €10. You couldn’t make this shit up
So the winners get five euro then. Jesus wept.
1st prize €5.
2nd prize €10.
Wish I’d entered now and came nowhere. I’d probably get thousands.
A new €10 note? Great, another 6 months – 1 year of vending machines not taking €10 notes.
Isn’t his signature on all €5 notes anyway?
Ye it’s on all the notes. The fact that these fivers are personally signed means they are collectors items worth a few bob. The fact the tenners are the first run means they’ll be worth a few more to collectors too. But on the face of it yes, first prize a fiver second prize a tenner! Wonder could we pull a similar trick on the ecb……. we COULD pay you back your 200billion but how about we pay you the better price of 50billion and we’ll say ye won a prize!
Joke!
Reading this article makes me think:”who gives a s**t?!” Another non-story from The Journal.
And here you are, reading it.
Couldn’t stop laughing
Great way to start the day ;)
What a crap prize!
Cool I want one
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