And the volunteers may have a point. Surprisingly, this is not the oldest crisp packet that has turned up recently. In May, a packet of Quavers from 1975 were found in a man’s garden.

A crisp packet from the 1970s was found on the ground inside the gate of Janet Midwinter's garden in Sennen, Cornwall. The amateur archaeologist thought it must have blown in off the back of a ...

It was a snack to the future moment for litter pickers at a nature reserve when they unearthed a well-seasoned crisp packet. While the contents of the crumpled Walkers ready salted bag were no ...

One person, posting a picture of their opened crisp packet, commented: "@walkers_crisps deep ridged empty packets #ripoff." While another, with another photo of crisps, said: "I've had some ...

Royal Mail intervened when people started posting empty crisp packets back to Walkers Snack firm Walkers has announced a recycling scheme - after Royal Mail begged campaigners not to post empty ...

Can anything be done to prevent today's crisp packets returning to our shores 60 years from now? Chris Turner was staying at his holiday home in Scratby, near Great Yarmouth, when he started to ...

A heating expert says that the aluminium lining of crisp packets helps keep the heat in (Picture: Alamy) Pensioners who may struggle to afford to turn the heating on this winter are being told to ...