TWO Oakley residents collected hundreds of plastic sweet containers this week, as part of a charity recycling campaign in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

On Monday, February 1, Gemma Kershaw and Jill Gibson took a grand total of 515 chocolate tubs to The Swan pub in Sherborne St John, which they had collected from around the area.

James Childe and Ann-Louise Gridley were very happy to take them and the tubs will now all be recycled - granulated into pellets and made into new plastic - instead of going to landfill or incineration.

Macmillan Cancer Support will receive 8p per tub as part of the Tub2Pub initiative run by the pub’s operating company Greene King.

Jill said: “The Swan do lots of fundraising, it is very impressive to hear about their different activities.

“The tubs were collected not just from Oakley, but also Overton, Rooksdown, Kempshott, and at the hospital. Well done, everyone - your chocolate consumption has been for a good cause!”

To find out more about the Tub2Pub scheme, visit: https://tub2pub.co.uk/tub2pub/