'Sweet Tub Teddy' smashes recycling target

Christmas might feel like a distant memory now, but one reminder you may still have lying around is a sweet tub.

Seven-year-old Teddy certainly has plenty, as he's collected over 11,000 of them in a bid to stop plastic pollution.

Depending on where you live, the plastic tubs you get delicious sweets in might not be able to be recycled, which means they end up in landfill.

The makers say lots of these boxes are recyclable but, because different local areas have different recycling facilities, only some are able to process the type of plastic that's used in the tub.

When Teddy found out they couldn't be recycled in his local area, he started collecting them from people in his school, and then put up posters around where he lived.

After collecting them, they were then sent to a special plastic processing plant.

Now known as Sweet Tub Teddy, his ultimate goal is to stop plastic pollution altogether.

Over this recent festive period, Teddy smashed his target of collecting 5000 sweet tubs by gathering a whopping 11,233 containers - over double his goal, and more than four times as many as he collected last year.

He said he was surprised overjoyed, and "felt amazing" when the new total was revealed on Sunday, surrounded by huge piles of tubs and their lids.

He said would "100%" do the challenge again, hinting his new goal might be 15,000.

And to the companies that make the tubs, he had one request: "Please make all these tubs into cardboard".