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What can you do with a Pop Can Tab?
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What can you do with a pop can tab? Well... you can use it to open a can of pop. You can make a musical shaker. You can make a jingly toy for your cat. Perhaps a necklace? How about some artwork? Or... you can make a wheelchair. What! Make a wheelchair? Wheelchairs don't look like they're made out of pop can tabs. Impossible! Or is it? Here's how it works: 1. Drink a can of pop (or juice or iced tea or maybe a special drink I haven't heard of). 2. Remove the tab by bending it back and forth or twisting it a little. 3. Pop the tab into a container or bag. 4. Once that bag gets full bring it to a drop-off spot. Most people like to drop their tabs off in the Sick Kids Cafeteria (The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario) or at Variety Village (3701 Danforth Avenue, Scarborough, Ontario). If either of those places is too far for you, just call me, Robert (416-484-0551), and I will come to pick them up, or give you a better place to drop them off. 5. When the tabs get to my house, we search through them and remove anything that isn't a pop can tab. You wouldn't believe the things we find—coins, plastic bread tabs, jewelry, garbage, old food (yuk!) and bottle caps. Then the tabs go into plastic boxes that are stored in my garage. When we can't find our bikes, or toboggans or basketballs anymore, we know it's time to fill up the car with those boxes of pop can tabs. We usually have about 1000 pounds (450 kilograms) at that point. 6. Drive to a metal recycling depot. This is a place where you can sell any scrap metal so that it can be melted down and used again. All of the tabs are put in a big metal bin and then weighed. Did you know that there are about 1450 tabs in a pound? The tabs are worth more than the pop cans because they are pure aluminum and don't need to have any paint taken off them. I am usually paid between 50 and 70 cents per pound. 7. When there is enough money it's time to buy a wheelchair.
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you are in Newfoundland and Labrador and have been collecting tabs
for Robert, please contact either Rev. Stephanie McClellan @709-454-6995
or by email at revstephmc@gmail.com. You may also call the Fraser
Road United Church @ (709) 256-3000. Rev. Stephanie has a link to
an aluminum recycler. Rev. Stephanie and the United Church will
arrange delivery to our depot here in Gander. When Rev. Stephanie
and the church receives enough tabs, they take them to the dealer
and they receive the same price as Robert for the tabs. A cheque
gets written to the Foundation and sent to Robert where it accumulates
in the same fashion as his other donations." GREAT NEWS FROM NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR In Newfoundland and Labrador, people can take the tabs to any United Church and the congregations will make sure that the tabs get to Gander where they will continue with the depot duties.
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You may collect the tabs and take them to your nearest scrap dealer.
The money (cheque) can then be sent to: Cheques are made out to: General: http://www.presidentschoice.ca/LCLOnline/aboutUsCharity.jsp Application: http://t4gimages.com/lcl/article_images/PCCC_Application_EN.pdf |
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