Who didn’t have at least one tub of sweets or biscuits on the go throughout the festive season? Thankfully, local pubs are collecting the empty plastic packaging to raise money for charity.
Greene King has launched its annual Tub2Pub appeal for customers to start the New Year with charity and environment on their minds, by recycling empty plastic sweets and biscuit tubs.
This is the third year Greene King has partnered with co-cre8 in the Tub2Pub scheme. Co-cre8 specialises in recycling the hard polypropylene plastic which the tubs are made of. Money raised from the sale of the resulting granulated plastic will be passed on to Greene King’s charity partner, Macmillan Cancer Support.
Over 1,600 Greene King pubs will act as drop-off points for people to leave their empty plastic confectionary and biscuit containers as they cannot be easily recycled in kerbside collections.
Last year, the scheme saw an amazing 24,000 tubs, which is over three tonnes of plastic, saved from landfill.
In Bedford Borough, participating pubs include The George and Dragon on Mill Street, The Ship on St Cuthbert’s Street and The Swan in Bromham.
You can take in any clean and empty tubs into Greene King pubs throughout January and until 19 February. A full list of the pubs taking part can be found on the Greene King website here.
Vance Fairman-Smith, Greene King’s supply chain director, hopes 2023 will set a new record number of tubs collected.
“Tub2Pub is simply a great initiative as we all need to play our part in tackling waste. As a company we’re constantly working to support our communities and are committed to reducing the impact on the environment,” he said.
“January and early February is an ideal time for our pubs to act as community collection points as millions of these tubs are sold over the festive season.”
Peter Goodwin, managing director and co-founder of co-cre8 added: “We are delighted to be working with Greene King again in 2023.
“Our successful partnership means there is an extensive network of pubs across the country where people can drop off their empty tubs. It’s simple, convenient and effective. It’s good for customers, charity and the environment.”
