[Community-service] On Collecting Can Tops

[Denyece Roberts]

Hey Michelle I watch that same program but I would've never imagined this being greed or spam because I've done it several times in several fundraisers so I don't know what they done with the tops to go Vicenta Thompson the hospital and we got great response

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> On Jan 5, 2014, at 12:10 AM, "Michelle Clark" <mcikeyc at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, it proves we have to check and double check things before we jump into
> a project. Something like "Due Diligence"? I watch a program on television
> called "American Greed". It is amazing what crooks get away with and folk
> believe them.
> 
> Michelle
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Community-service [mailto:community-service-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Steven Johnson
> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 8:22 PM
> To: 'Community Service Discussion List'
> 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).