Greene King's ‘Tub2Pub’, a recycling campaign to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support and recycle plastics, will be back in 2025! Check back for more details coming soon...
We’re all guilty of indulging in chocolate, sweets and crackers over the festive period, and in the UK we are buying tens of millions of these plastic tubs every year!
Make sure your tubs don’t go to waste and bring your clean, empty plastic confectionery and cracker tubs to any Greene King managed site in January 2025 to be recycled.
Simply leave your tubs with a Greene King staff member at the bar or welcome station within one of their locations.
All tubs will be collected and taken to a plastic reprocessing centre where they’re shredded, before being sold onto plastic manufacturers to use in place of virgin plastics. All money raised from the sale of Tub2Pub plastics will be given directly to Macmillan Cancer Support.
To find your local Greene King establishment taking part, use our pub finder here.
Our Chosen charity, Macmillan Cancer Support, is one of the largest British charities and provides specialist health care, information, and financial support to people affected by cancer. It also looks at the social, emotional, and practical impact cancer can have, and campaigns for better cancer care. To read more about Macmillan Cancer Support, please click here.
No, dropping off containers is completely free.
By dropping off your containers, you will not only be helping the environment by aiding the recycling of hard-to-recycle plastics, but you will also be helping us raise money for charity.
Please ensure your tubs are clean, empty, and sanitised before taking them to a Greene King managed location.
The area where you drop your containers off will vary at different pubs so just make sure you ask a member of staff!
Clean, empty plastic confectionary and cracker tubs. (See Above)
Your containers will be kept in indoor and outdoor storage areas and as they’re plastic, they can be kept outside but stacked upside to keep out rain and other contaminants.
No, all money raised from the sale of Tub2Pub plastics goes directly to Macmillan Cancer Support. The only profit they may receive is if you decide to have a meal and drinks while you're there!
The plastic containers will be collated and sent to DCW Polymers where the containers are shredded before being sold to manufacturers where they are made into recycled products. All the profit money from the sales will be given to our chosen charity, Macmillan Cancer Support.
Greene King is collecting tubs on behalf of DCW Polymers and co-cre8 who are responsible for the collection, recycling, and sale of the plastic tubs. All tubs will be collected in February 2024 from each drop-off location across a couple of days. Routes will be carefully planned for the collection drivers to help minimise the amount of road miles.
