pop tabs

Buddy asked me were to turn in pop tabs??

Aluminum? Any scrap yard? Or ronald mcdonald does that charity sometimes.

McDonalds does that all the time. The tabs (1#=.50) go to the Ronald McDonald houses near major Children's hospitals all across the u.s. where parents can stay while their children are in the hospital. I feel guilty that I don't have the time...or don't take the time to take them off.

Could always make flashy necklaces for flea markets, too.

Try this for a retro look http://www.instructables.com/id/Pop-...-Window-Beads/

How does one go about donating them?

It is a noble thing you want to do, but the pop can tabs for charity was an unfortunate rumor. Ronald McDonald House will accept them, and thank you, because they figure people worked hard to collect the can tabs because of the rumour. However, they do NOT get more than scrap value for them. So, it would would be more worthy to just donate the little money the tabs are worth. A million pull tabs makes the charity about $366, or put another way, a hundred tabs makes them 3 and a half cents.
source: www.snopes.com/business/redeem/pulltabs.asp

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Originally Posted by Kris Kringle

Yeah and take a Mathmatical Guess of how much less they would have without the Million Tabs? Did you ever hear it takes a Team to make a Bridge. In any case I Say Donate the Tabs unless it is going to Break you and what I mean by Break is to be a financial Burden on your existence as a Humanoid.

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Gavin said to just donate the equivalent money, you said to donate the tabs. If you donate the tabs, they have to be accepted by some sort of volunteer or staff, sorted, stored, loaded on a truck, gasoline paid to get it to the scrap yard, etc etc.

I agree with Gavin, much better for the charity to give them the equivalent cash than the tabs, and just turn in the tabs with your scrap.

Just my two cents.

1267 tabs make a pound.

I guess if you realy wanted to help them you could give the whole can. But they don't have room / labor for all those cans.

http://rmhc.org/how-you-can-help/pop-tab-collections/

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Originally Posted by Kris Kringle

Do you people ever actually read anything today or Do you just Like to Argue for the sake of Arguing? McDONALDS DOES ACCEPT THEM.

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Right... they accept them. That is what I said in the post that you quoted. Also said by Gavin in the post you quoted before that. Before you post in all caps and make youself look silly take a deep breath and reread things.

McDonalds get the exact same amount for them that you would get at a scrap yard. Say you have $1 value in tabs. You could sell them with your normal load and then donate $1 cash. Or you could donate them to McDonalds.

If you donate them and they accept them, when they accept them "they have to be accepted by some sort of volunteer or staff, sorted, stored, loaded on a truck, gasoline paid to get it to the scrap yard, etc etc. " This costs money. So now that $1 that you could have given them in cash has been diminished by all these costs to the point that they get less than if you can just turned them in with your load and given them the $1 bill.

The point we are both making is that it is much better for the charity for you to turn in the tabs, and give them cash than to give them the tabs and force them to deal with it.

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Originally Posted by Kris Kringle

Before You think Stupid McDonalds Is a Large Corperation and being a Large Coperation they WRITE OFF ALL THEIR LABOR on taxes. They Can Also Write Off Their Vehicle Expenses. On Another Note when you take in your Scrap How Ofted do you Actually Think About Donating Any of Your Money you Just Collected??????????? Yeah you are the one in Six Million that Does.

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Nowhere did I make assumptions about Ronald McDonald House Charity being a dumb corporation, but if you think they somehow come out further ahead being handed $1 in scrap than if they were given $1 in cash even with 'tax write-offs' (RMH is 501c3 tax exempt so there are no tax write offs for their expenses) it is a silly assumption. I'm saying for people on this board, if it boils down to giving scrap to them, or tossing it in with your load and then giving them the same value in cash, it is better for the charity to have the cash. I don't see how anyone can argue this point. If you can't keep track and remember to donate the money afterwards I have no comment for that, but if someone is taking the time to save all these tabs up I think they probably will remember to donate the money afterwards.

In summary:
Best: Selling aluminum scrap to scrap yard and donating money to charity
Good: Giving them the aluminum scrap and have them go through the motions, though they will come out with less money in the long run

When they were coming around for donations to schools in the early '90s and I was in Elementary school my dad was saving them for quite sometime. They had a pizza party at the end of the month for the winning class. I had brought in 16lbs of can tabs, needless to say my class won the pizza party. Later come to find out I brought in more tabs then the rest of the school collected together.

I shake my head & wonder how many Kgs of cans got thrown out just so someone can save the tabs?

I have seen a two page spread in a newspaper appealing for can tabs. They would have got more money if they just sold the advertising space.....