HC-One’s April Park Care Home in Eckington, Derbyshire, marked Global Recycling Day by taking part in a scheme to recycle plastic tubs.

In the run-up to Global Recycling Day, which took place on Monday 18 March, April Park Care Home took part in Greene King’s Tub2Pub campaign. The brewer and pub retailer has been encouraging organisations to recycle their clean empty plastic tubs to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

April Park Care Home’s staff, residents and visitors contributed to the initiative by collecting and donating plastic confectionary tubs, biscuit tubs and cracker tubs to their local Greene King site. The tubs are then taken to a plastic reprocessing centre to be shredded and sold onto plastic manufacturers, with the money raised from the sale of Tub2Pub plastics donated to Macmillan Cancer Support.

Residents, staff and visitors collected 1,368 tubs, double the number collected last year.

Lisa Dootson, home manager at April Park Care Home, said: “We are really proud to have all helped contribute towards supporting Macmillan Cancer Support and we are looking forward to continuing to support this initiative in upcoming years too. The initiative has multiple benefits including being more ecofriendly through recycling plastics whilst raising money for a great cause at the same time.”

She added: “Taking part in the Tub2Pub campaign will assist with HC-One’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ambition to be a carbon net zero care provider.”