With the festive season well underway now, most of us have already eaten countless sweets, mince pies and chocolates. If that includes the round tubs of chocolates, you might be wondering what to do with the empty container. While some people can find a use for them as reusable storage, the vast majority will end up being thrown away – a huge waste!

The team at Jubilee Lodge in Bourton-on-the-Water is keen to get involved with the Greene King initiative to collect as many tubs as possible and save them from landfill. Instead, they’ll be sent to a reprocessing centre to be shredded. From there, the plastic will be sold on to manufacturers who will be able to reuse the plastic in other products and packaging. These plastics are harder to recycle and not all councils are able to do so yet, so this campaign will help get the tubs to the right facility to make them reusable. Monies raised from the sale will go to Macmillan Cancer Support.

You can take your tubs to any Greene King pub, and or, if it’s easier for you, leave them at Jubilee Lodge and we’ll take them across to Greene King.  We’re taking Celebrations, Roses, Quality Street, and similar plastic cheese cracker and biscuit tubs – just make sure they’re empty and clean. The campaign is running from 1 January until 11 February – we’re confident that all our chocolates will be long gone by then! 

(Image from Greene King website)