[Community-service] On Collecting Can Tops

Sun Jan 5 01:39:58 UTC 2014

Wow,
this is interesting!----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Johnson" <blinddog3 at charter.net>
To: "'Community Service Discussion List'" <community-service at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Community-service] On Collecting Can Tops


> From www.SNOPES.com
>
> I also found that the aluminum in the tops is the same as in the can...and
> from what we are reading, it is simply aluminum that is being collected. 
> I
> fell for it as well.
>
> Claim:   Pull tabs from aluminum cans have special redemption value for 
> time
> on dialysis machines.
>
>
>
>
> FALSE
>
>
>
> Origins:   A legend this good-hearted should be true. But it's not. And a
> lot of really nice people end up sadly disappointed when they eventually
> discover all their hard work pretty much went for naught.
>
> Pulltabs have no special value that makes them redeemable for time on
> dialysis machines, or indeed which make them worth far in excess of their
> ordinary scrap metal recycle value. While a handful of charitable concerns
> (including McDonald's Ronald McDonald House and Shriners Hospitals for
> Children) accept donations of can tabs, said tabs fetch such groups no 
> more
> than the items' ordinary recycle value (more on that later in this 
> article).
>
>
> The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) says this of the dialysis rumor that
> has been dogging them for quite a while:
> A false rumor that has plagued the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and 
> the
> aluminum industry for decades has recently resurfaced, perhaps fueled by 
> the
> Internet. Individuals and groups believe they can donate the pull tabs on
> aluminum cans in exchange for time on a kidney dialysis machine.
>
> Such a program has never existed through the NKF, nor have there ever been
> programs through the foundation allowing people to exchange any type of 
> item
> (box tops, product points, etc.) for time on dialysis.
> I don't think anyone is ever going to figure out where what have come to 
> be
> called "redemption rumors" first came from. The notion of something of
> little value (pull-tabs, empty cigarette packs) being collected by
> good-hearted people and then turned over to a public-spirited company who
> would redeem them for an item that would help the less fortunate (time on 
> a
> dialysis machine, a wheelchair, a seeing eye dog) goes back a long way -
> ours is far from the first generation to fall for this canard.
>
> A 2002 article described a common experience with the rumor:
> Back when 15-year-old Elizabeth Bohli was in the third grade, she had a
> friend who had a friend who had leukemia. Word was that the sick girl's
> doctor told her about a program in which the Coca-Cola Co. would pay for 
> one
> chemotherapy session for every 1,000 aluminum pop-tops collected.
>
> Elizabeth remembered that program when her 12-year-old sister, Jenny, was
> diagnosed with melanoma in September, and a massive collection drive began
> at Pelham High School.
>
> For two months, students, teachers and parents brought in thousands of the
> tiny aluminum objects.
>
> Soon, other schools were calling, asking how they could donate their
> pop-tops. Word spread to churches, which eagerly jumped in to help. And 
> one
> friend told another, and another and another.
>
> Since then, the pop-tops campaign has gone, well, a little over the top. 
> As
> of this week, more than 276,000 had been collected.
>
> And they're still pouring in.
>
> But none of that metal will translate into free treatments for Jenny. "It
> was just an old myth," she said this week.
>
> Jenny's mother, Jo, called Coca-Cola recently, feeling as though she held 
> a
> winning lottery ticket in her hands. Then she asked how she could cash in
> the pop-tops for money to pay for her daughter's immunotherapy treatments.
>
> At first, there was laughter. Then the voice on the other end told her
> there's no such program.
>
> "She actually laughed because she couldn't believe that the kids had
> collected so many," Bohli said. "To me, it was just so outstanding that
> these kids made such a fantastic effort to help Jenny."
>
> Walker Jones, community relations director for Coca-Cola in Birmingham,
> said that while the company works with some cancer-related charities, it
> does not redeem pop-tops for medical treatments.
>
> Jones doesn't know who perpetuates the pop-tops rumor, but it has been
> fizzing around for some time. "I think the myth has been going on for over
> 20 years," she said.1
> There's nothing special about pull tabs which makes them exchangeable for
> time on a dialysis machine. These bits of metal are worth nothing more 
> than
> the ordinary recycle value of the aluminum they contain.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Community-service [mailto:community-service-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Denyece Roberts, MSW, RCSW
> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 6:48 PM
> To: Community Service Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [Community-service] On Collecting Can Tops
>
> Hello everyone, with my busy schedule I'm just getting a chance to check 
> my
> emails.  The  soda tabs are used for dialysis, and heart patients.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brooke Evans" <brooke6358 at aol.com>
> To: "Everett Gavel" <everett at everettgavel.com>; "Community Service
> Discussion List" <community-service at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: <community-service at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 11:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [Community-service] On Collecting Can Tops
>
>
>> Everett,
>>
>> Your info is correct!.......and thank you for the reminder, which I'd
>> totally forgotten about.....it's the aluminum that brings funds into
>> the coffers of the club piggy bank.  bre
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>> On Jan 4, 2014, at 10:58 AM, "Everett Gavel"
>>> <everett at everettgavel.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Michelle, Chris, and all,
>>>
>>> What I heard, probably more than a decade ago now, is that the can
>>> tabs are aluminum, therefore can be turned in for a few cents a
>>> pound, and it can help to, say, defray the cost of dialysis for some.
>>> That's how it was 'splained to me.
>>>
>>> Strive On!
>>> Everett
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> Did the question below ever get answered? I have not ran across it
>>>> and am interested in knowing myself.
>>>> Michelle
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> Hi Denyece and all,
>>>> I am unfamiliar with the activity of collecting bottle caps or soda
>>>> tabs for hospitals. Could someone explain this? How would the
>>>> caps/tabs be used by the hospital?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks so much.
>>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
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