Charity, Eco & Environment | Posted on December 27th, 2024 | return to news
Take your plastic sweet tub to the pub and raise money for charity
Greene King’s Tub2Pub recycling campaign will be back in the New Year to raise money for Macmillan cancer support.
The pub company and brewer, Greene King, is running its Tub2Pub initiative again in the New Year so customers can recycle their empty plastic confectionary and crackers tubs, saving waste from landfill and raising money for charity.
The annual Tub2Pub campaign offers customers a simple recycling solution for the hundreds of thousands of polypropylene sweets and biscuits tubs sold over the festive period. Last year alone, around 150,000 plastic tubs were collected in Greene King pubs.
People can take their clean and empty plastic sweets and biscuits tubs to 1,600 participating Greene King managed pubs nationwide between Wednesday, 1 January and Sunday 16 February 2025.
Over the last five years, Tub2Pub has collected 26,253kg of plastic, which is around 230,000 tubs, raising £23,908 for Greene King’s charity partner, Macmillan Cancer Support.
These tubs cannot always be recycled at kerbside waste collections, so the network of pubs provide drop-off points for customers looking for a recycling solution.
Greene King partners with co-cre8 to run the Tub2Pub campaign. The polypropylene tubs are turned into granulated plastic by DCW Polymers which can then be used in new, UK-made 100% recycled plastic outdoor products, such as picnic benches and dog agility equipment.
Nicola Keith, acting head of Corporate Partnerships at Macmillan Cancer Support said: “Every year we are delighted by the efforts of Greene King customers supporting Tub2Pub. To think people can be enjoying their festive sweets and crackers, then by simply taking the empty tubs to their local pub, it can be recycled, and the proceeds help someone who is living with cancer. It really does make such a difference to people. What could have ended up in landfill has such a value to someone.”
Greene King’s group supply chain director, Vance Fairman-Smith said: “The simplicity of the scheme makes it the success it is, and we are hoping for another record-breaking year in 2025. The appetite for recycling is becoming a part of everyday life and we are delighted to help our customers do their bit.”
For more information go to https://www.tub2pub.co.uk/tub2pub/ which lists participating Greene King pubs.
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