He's the six-year-old Southampton eco warrior who has saved thousands of sweet tubs from landfill. 

Teddy Michaelides, from Netley, was horrified at the thought of the confectionery tubs he saw stacked high in the supermarkets at Christmas having a negative effect on our environment once discarded.

He decided to take a leaf out of the book of his real-life superhero, environmentalist Sir David Attenborough, and take action to help the planet for a second year running. 

Last time around, Teddy's eco mission saw him collect 358 tubs, but this year's current total is 2598 and still growing. 

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He said: "I started off as just one boy, with one tub but a big dream and now I have saved 2598 tubs. Thank you everyone who has supported me, I really appreciate it. Look what we can do when we all work together.

"We have one planet with life on it, we have to protect it. It’s never too late to make a change."

With dreams of being a marine biologist one day, Teddy is particularly concerned about the affect of plastic on the ocean an the animals it inhabits.

(Image: Family collection) After toying with the idea of 'a year off to visit the Sealife Centres', he sprung into action once again and has created more collection points and signed up family and friends to be part of his dedicated tub collection team. A local business has even helped by offering to store Teddy’s haul as his home was bursting at the seams.

Parents Laura and Dean are incredibly proud of their little man who has worked very hard using social media pleas, posters, creating a number of collection points and leaflet dropping in the local area. He even sent one of his ‘tub collectors’ to the tip to rescue any that had made their way that close to the point of no return.

Teddy has collected the tubs as part of Greene King's Tub2Pub charity appeal. The tubs will be taken to The Shamblehurst Barn pub in Hedge End and from there to a plastic reprocessing centre.

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