Last year he collected 358 of the tubs, which are typically sold with chocolates, sweets, or crackers inside.

He wrote a letter to his school, which in turn sent out a letter to parents, and together with his mum Laura he put up posters at local businesses.

He even asked his grandad to go to the local tip to ask them to save any tubs that people had binned, to prevent them going to landfill.

Whilst some authorities in the UK have the capacity to recycle these tubs via kerbside collection, Hampshire currently does not.

Recently Teddy stepped up his activity, and a post on Facebook in which he described himself as an “eco warrior on a mission” and telling of how “hundreds of thousands of [tubs] go to landfill or the ocean” helped gather momentum.

He quickly “smashed” this year’s target of 500 tubs, reaching 2,598 in a month.

He has also been collecting them from people’s houses, and has taken them out of bins.