Monmouthshire Building Society, Brecon has recently been supporting a Greene King pub campaign (Tub2Pub) to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support and recycle plastics.

The branch has been collecting plastic chocolate, biscuit or cracker tubs hanging around after Christmas. In the UK tens of millions of plastic tubs are sold every year. Last year the campaign managed to save 25,000 plastic tubs going to landfill and is looking to increase this year-on-year.

The Tub2Pub campaign ensures that all tubs collected will be taken to a plastic reprocessing centre where they will be shredded, before being sold onto plastic manufacturers to use in place of virgin plastics and the proceeds from these sales will go to Macmillan Cancer Support. It 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.

Zoe Mathias, Branch Manager said: “We wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone that has supported us with this campaign. We wanted to beat last year’s target of 242 tubs. This year we achieved 1,470. We never expected this response and feel totally overwhelmed.

“Brecon Rotary Club have supported us with this project by collecting the tubs from Coop, Morrisons & Aldi’s & by helping to transport them to Parc Y Prior, Newport (Greene King Pub). Special mention to Collette & the team at Powys County Council Waste & Recyling (Brecon Depot) for sifting through the recycling to support us with this.

“This has been a great community effort and thank you once again for all your support.”

As a branch they are very passionate about recycling and the environment. They have recently volunteered at the Mayors Fashion Show - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. This is all about reusing unwanted clothing, textiles and other items. About 290 million tonnes of waste are produced in the UK each year, of which around 22.9 million is domestic. Around 50 per cent of our domestic waste ends up in landfill. The fashion Show encouraged people to look at the things they normally throw away and see what can be reused or recycled to reduce the waste.