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Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI
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Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 | 01:10 PM
Thanks Liam. Where I am, they recycle both the tops and the bottles and when you put them in the recycling bin, you are not asked to seperate the bottles from the tops, so that is a little different from what I am used to. I don't see why they don't do the same wherever it is you are. Who knows, who cares. I'm looking at it this way, if it is indeed not a hoax, then at least something is getting recycled that otherwise wouldn't be, no matter how small it is or how low the value, it's less trash taking up space and funking up the environment. |
Dominic Shields
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Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 | 01:30 AM
Rex, where you live, what is done sounds logical, and is actually all I'm suggesting. |
Liam Murphy
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Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 | 12:37 PM
it does indeed "sound" logical but i do feel unlikely.
First are you sure your recycling right Rex? I'm assuming you live in milwaukee, and if not, sorry but, where? Niether blue nor red bins want the caps off plastic bottles. Want them removed in fact.
http://www.mpw.net/Pages/MilwaukeeRecycles
I'm not saying its impossible but there would be considerable difficulties. I can't recommend this report off the scottish agricultural college enough to fully explain problems of first plastic recycling in general and also with mixed plastic collections.
http://www1.sac.ac.uk/info/External/Publications/MiscellaneousReports.asp
The setting up a plastic recycling business report, chapters 4-6.
If the tops are left on the bottles they would have to be removed by the MRP (materials recovery plant)and dangerous when it comes to compacting bottles for baling. Then both bottles and tops would need separating into polymer type (bottles either PET or HPTE; tops either HDPE, PP, LDPE). Tops could not stay on for separation process if sorted by hand or floatation method (3 types willl float at different levels - density). Next MRP might separate different colours of polymer type to attract better price thouogh probabluy only profittable with clear vs tinted PET bottles.
Then remember the low vlue and/or weight of the tops and the fact MRP probably contractor. Take on these extra costs for soo little return? Not if a business and not in milwaukee (only bottles of type 1& 2, PET & HDPE, are collected).
Tops and their security rings are nothing more than contamintion.
Sorry Rex don't think your tops are recycled and are either landfill or burnt, probably.
Collecting bottles is barely viable for councils. Already have stretched budgets and even Recoup believes best practice would meant costs of waste management stay the same (including revenue after sale of plastic). Collecting tops (and other plastic) is not viable without large tax increases for councils and unprofitable for companies.
Gotta be a charity and hope is has positive cultural benefits like questioning plastic use and plastic waste. Maybe help us along the path to mixed plastic collection coz that would require us to know about 7ish different plastic types and contamination. Require us have several different bins and to sort, clean and compact all the plastic to make it viable. Then we'd have to swallow more tax to pay for all the collection schemes.
All that be easier if the UK particularly had already been moe involved in plastic recycling say with bottle tops
(ps from manchester) |
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI
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Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 | 05:24 PM
That is the first I've heard. That may very well be correct, and I hope it's not, but everyone in Milwaukee Co. got a green letter in the mail about the new recycling proceedures and it stated that it was unnessecary to remove the caps, but this was a few years ago and might have changed since then. I nor anybody else I know takes the caps off, in fact, I crush the bottle to get all the air and put the cap on to keep it crushed so that there is more room in the trash or recycling bin, whichever. That first link didn't work for me, but I will go to the site and check it out.
Also, why make the caps out of a plastic that is not safe to recycle? That's retarded. They should write up a new game plan and make the whole thing recyclable |
Liam
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 | 08:05 AM
hmmm wonder why the address didn't work. maybe will now
http://www.mpw.net/Pages/MilwaukeeRecycles.htm
sorry i seem to have been a little unclear. the tops and caps both safe to recycle but have to be done by different processes.
It is possible both could be used together and make plastic lumber but wouldn't be Best use of more valuable clear PET in the bottles. However plastic lumber may be a solution for bottle tops especially as a proportion of them are PP - a polymer needed to bind the lot together. Bouchons d'amour's reclyclor Eryplast make the tops into forklift pallets (hope called pallets in US).
Leaving tops on is dangerous only when it comes to compacting and baling the bottles. If people do not crush air outta bottle, like what you do, then could have few top explosions as they are compacted. |
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 | 01:02 PM
Oops! Looks like I shouldn't be leaving the tops on after all. Thanks Liam.
OK, both recyclable, but through a different process, but why not make the bottles and the tops out of the same plastic so that you can recycle them both at the same time? That is what I would have done, but maybe they tried already and it just didn't work, but I'm sure theres a way to work it out so that they are both the same plastic. |
Liam Murphy
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 | 07:10 AM
possibly could but bottles might have to change a lot.
there are different types of plastic now because the drinks companies and the packagers want different qualities in their bottles and tops.
Bottles: flexible, transparent Caps: ridgid, coloured
- probably few important technical reaasons including ease of moulding.
Price will also be a factor PET much more expensive than HDPE, LDPE or PP.
however progress in that direction could be facilitated by more plastic recycling, more awareness and consumer pressure or otherwise, though unlikely, from an act of government.
before that though even it would help a lot if all plastics were labelled with the appropiate plastic mark 1-7, on the product itself ideally rather than the label.
Virtually none of the tops are labelled. I've collected nearly a hundred just casually over last few weeks. 3 have a plastic marking (2 LDPE, 1 HDPE). |
Andrew
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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 | 01:54 AM
So we can summarise what we have learnt here as.
There are no known* charitys collecting milk bottle tops for wheelchairs. Similarly there is no known* charity collecting walkers crisps packets for wheelchairs.
There is only one known charity that makes money from recycling milk bottle tops. It gets a price of |
Liam
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Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 | 09:50 AM
i just wanna add though that it is not impossible to collect bottle tops for charity.
it does happen on the continent in France because of the hard work and goodwill of thousands of volunteers. They collect plastic bottle tops and raise money for several things including sports wheelchairs.
http://www.bouchonsdamour.com/
(google translates reasonably well from french)
With a sympathetic plastic recycling company and 1000's of volunteers is it not possible elsewhere? |
Liam
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Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 | 09:51 AM
sorry that link will take you to the site in french.
search 'bouhonsdamour' in google to be able to get translated version. |
sophie
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 | 06:07 AM
Not sure if this helps but I have been researching where my hospice can get rid of our milk bottle tops. Our day centre patients collect them and we are looking for an outlet?
http://www.letsrecycle.com/materials/plastics/news.jsp?story=3853 |
ben
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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 | 06:39 AM
if it is a con, whats the point, we used to collect them at work still might(i quit after hitting boss)it all seemed real but you never can really tell, thinkin about it, it seems really stupid |
goopynuts
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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 | 08:25 PM
If you deliver to me your own weight in bottle caps, I will buy you a wheelchair. Oh, one catch: I'm lying. |
I_was_thinkin_about_the_doorbel_R_U_"gonna"_ring_i
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 | 07:28 PM
I was searching to find out how much plastic weighs various ways,I ended up here and read some of these post from febuary I was just thinking that with all these various plastics that the whole idea behind the bottle cap event would be a hoax the garbage collector is thinkin of since lots of good hearted people stick the cap back on the empty jug.they do it as act of kindness to themselves which they see as a good deed to others as they pass it on.the theory has been in place since the 60's (or earlier)the returnable soda bottle had baseball player on the caps now the once mighty can opener makers read em and weep with these screw off plastic bottles.they're great for resealing the drink.Sounds like you folks are in europe and I'm finding alot more about plastic in the U.K. being recycled in Hong Kong and China than I see about recycling in the U.S. That's all in theory kind of a way to make the rest of the bottle easier to smash-manage (L.O.L.2myself)
There is no quote on the price of plastic anywhere you have to email everyone who wants to buy it.I just called the plastic nation,in Floprida the current quote was .18 U.S. pennies a pound and I have to have 40,000 pounds .They'll come to you anywhere in the world.They give you trailer and bailers free of course not everyone has a place to park a 40 footer.I am trying to research about the weight
35,000 to 40,000 pounds of compacted plastic in one trailer seems to me you could fill it up and
still be able to push it sideways with you hand
maybe not that light especially because of skid weight and trailer weight but still I'd start a hoax that you could pull that much plastic by hand on a string on a sheet without skids of wood.So I figured that roughly $7,000 US.bucks.
I just think it would still float on the road.It's fun to dropkick the two liters outside
in a parking lot. |
David B.
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 | 09:43 AM
I was suprised to see this thread come back up the forum list and just wondered what new information could have been added to the copious amounts of opinion and fact already presented, lol. But when I got here and read the previous post I found it to be a meaningless stream of conciousness spawned by the addled brain (this is your brain on drugs - lol) of someone who apparently thinks they are james joyce but isn't 'coz what they write isn't nearly so interesting. Why would anyone put so much effort into typing so much drivel into a forum box but not put any effort into actually thinking about what message they are trying to get across (if they are trying to get a message across, which is not a given as they may just be performing a little bit of intellectual masturbation by putting up something they think is insightful but more resembles something that fell wetly from their flabby bottoms) is beyond me! I mean I know it looks like monkey-derived random bashing at the keypad but just try it (like I am doing and without the aid of anything stronger than tea (earl-grey, hot (but with a dash of milk - Picard, I'm not))), it is frickin' difficult to keep it up for more than a few sentences without succumbing to the temptation to just cut and paste something from Wikipedia (the poster-boy for wordy, smug (but occasionally accurate) diatribes about nowt). Perhaps we could have a competition; who can write the longest, weirdest, most meaningless but seemingly insightful post (not that the last one seemed insightful, but to make the contest a bit more interesting). Extra points for most asides, least number of sentences, most unusual use of grammar, and subtlest mistake. |
Julie
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 | 04:44 AM
http://www.ckpolymers.co.uk/Default.asp
Am also worried about this as I have been collecting milk bottle tops for a friend's grandaughter who is at a local school. When I asked how this operates, nobody seems to know (although admit I haven't contacted the school).
However, found the above site who say they buy plastic (including milk bottle tops). Don't know how viable it is but may be possible that the Company pay the school for the scrap plastic and then they pass the proceeds onto a charity who provide wheelchairs?
Come on, have some faith in human nature and people's kindness. |
Liz Owsley
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 | 12:32 AM
Naomi House collect the plastic bottle tops - it is on their website for all to see. |
lara
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 | 10:04 AM
HELLO EVERYONE! I HAVE BEEN COLLECTING PLASTIC BOTTLE TOPS FOR BOY WHO NEEDED A WHEELCHAIR BUT HE HAS NOW RECIEVED HIS CHAIR BUT I STILL HAVE ABOUT 100 OR MORE LEFT SOO IF THIS IS STILL CARRYING ON I HAVE LOTS I WISH TO DONATE PLEASE CONTACT ME ON MY EMAIL! LARA XXX
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kelly juleff
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 | 09:22 AM
pls email,if you know where i can send my bottle top lids, i have heard there is a company that recycles them to make new wheelchairs. i would like to be part of this, if you know the address pls email. many thanks and keep recycling. |
LOUISE
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 | 07:34 AM
I HAV LOTS OF BOTTLE TOPS THAT IVE COLLECTED FROM A CLUB WHERE I WORK,I WAS SAVEING THEM 4 A WOMAN THAT WANTED TO GET A WHEELCHAIR BUT I LOST HER NUMBER, PLEASE CAN U FIND ME A CHARITY THAT CAN TAKE THESE BOTTLE TOPS. |
lara
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 | 05:19 PM
hello i still have 100ish bottle tops email if you kno ne where i can send them. i want to help!
lara-chan x
[[email protected]] |
Su Morgan
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 | 04:03 AM
I work at Naomi House, and I can confirm that we definitely collect milk bottle tops. However.... and this is a big however.... this is not the huge money spinner that people think it is. It's actually quite difficult to manage, but we do make a few quid out of this. The company we use to reprocess these is the only one in the country with the machinery, and he's based in Portsmouth. We make #60 per tonne, which is about 80 bin bags full, so not loads. I can always be contacted at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for further information. We actually made over #17k last year from recycling items, only #900 from the tops alone. Of course, we are very grateful for the support. |
Arielle Schnepp
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 | 07:49 AM
I am furious that people think this is a hoax. I am one of the "bigarchons" collecting plastic bottle tops in the UK for this charity: http://www.bouchonsdamour.com/bouchons.htm
It is a huge project in France and has made a significant difference to a lot of disabled kids. No there are probably no official collection points in the uk, apart from individuals like me who give their time, effort and garage space for this. I will transport all the tops collected to France with a friend who owns a small truck, probably this summer. The plastic in question is worth more per ton than other plastics, so it is important to collect them in great quantity. please those of you who are collecting but don't know what to do with them contact me here. |
Sarah
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 | 10:52 AM
According to the recycling websites, Bouchons d'Amour weren't accepting British bottle tops. Whether they accept them or not doesn't change the fact that the chain letters/emails that say a dairy will buy a child's wheelchair if you collect enough milk bottle tops IS a hoax. The hoaxes make no mention of Bouchon's d'Amour - they all refer to British charities, dairies and companies. |
Stephen Casey
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 | 01:19 AM
In the late 1970's a work friend of mine was collecting foil from inside cigarette packs to help a little girl from Canberra obtain (from memory)a guide dog. The dollar value of the collection was irrelevent it was the fact that the girl and her friends had to do something to earn it. The organisation required a certain task to be completed so as the child could earn it and not just be given it. This way you value something more if you earn it. What was collected was most likely thrown out.
Also, schools in Queensland can collect bottle tops from certain milk bottles and and the company that the caps came from will swap a set amount of caps for a new computer.
This way the children have to earn the computers by collecting the caps and the company involved sells more of it's product. |
anonymous
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Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 | 07:26 AM
i think this is no scam it is a charitable cause that i have collected for |
heather b
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Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 | 08:42 AM
If u want my plastic bottle tops e-mail me. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) |
Ro
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 | 05:22 AM
A few weeks ago I heard on the local radio of a charity collecting bottle tops - after hours and hours of research this forum has the most information I can find on the subject so I am forced to think that the hospital sack full of bottle tops is useless - the local radio station have not been able to gain any additional information from the caller who requested the bottle tops. As Derby is way too far to transport this quantity to Portsmouth I fear they are all going in the bin. |
trayc
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 | 04:53 AM
i too have several big binliners full of plastic bottle tops which where collected for a lady in cumbria whom i have on good word ( that of a tutor at a local college) that she did infact get a wheelchair the tutor had enlisted the help of loads of her students. someone must have more information? |
Sharon
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 | 09:38 AM
I found one site that says it works to collect the bottle tops.
http://www.eisl-pt.org/pkwww/features/f51214c.html
maybe you can find out more from the site about the article it has about it.
Good luck! |
Laura Hartland
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 | 06:43 AM
Calling Arielle Schnepp from in Dunfermline!
I've tried visiting the website with the link you have provided but, as I don't speak french, I am having trouble getting anymore details about collecting milk bottle tops.
I help schools in my local borough with recycling and am being driven insane by the same question, "can we recycle bottle tops for charity?" Please could you post some more information, or contact details for a location in England that I could use. PLEASE!!!!!!!!
Thanks |
Jordan
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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 | 06:50 AM
Hello,
my friend and I are collecting these pull tabs and we're not sure what to do with them. At first we were collecting them for are club but our club just thought they were cool and they were merley our monthly payment to be in the club. so we needed something to do with them. i over heard one of my friends saying something about giving them to a charity for cancer (not a wheelchair) and so i asked the club if we wanted to collect the pull tabs for the above reasons. well they said i needed to do more reserch on the matter before they wasted their time collecting the dumb things. so that is how i came to find this website. i love collecting the pull tabs but im not sure if there is any point. as i was googling the matter i not only found this site but this one which says that there is a charity that takes them but to me it sounds as if it dosen't do anything. <a href="www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_077.html">www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_077.html</a> so if you have an idea of what this article is talking about PLEASE tell me. |
Kevin
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 | 04:11 AM
I sent an e-mail today, 9th October 2006, to http://www.naomihouse.org.uk, the only charity I could find that was taking these plastic bottle tops.
Here is the reply -
Hi,
Thank you for your recent email and for supporting Naomi House.
Unfortunately we no longer collect milk bottle tops.
We are however still collecting used stamps, printer cartridges, old mobile phones and foreign currency.
Thank you once again for your support and I hope you can continue to help us with our other recycling projects.
Kind Regards
Michelle Williams
Fundraising Assistant
So there you have it. No one is collecting these tops. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. |
Tigi
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 | 10:08 AM
Good news the company in Portsmouth is still recylcing the blue milk bottle tops.
The link belows tells where you can take the tops inthe somerset area to help a local child
http://archive.thisisthewestcountry.co.uk/2006/6/26/58499.html |
Nigel
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 | 03:41 PM
Sorry, it IS a hoax. Simple arithmetic can tell you. |
Stephen F Allen
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Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 | 06:41 AM
where can I dispose of bottom tops collected in lincoln? |
Susan
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 | 10:19 AM
Hi
I have heard all about this for sometime now and the BBC have reported on it on their OUCH! page on the web. Here they name a company in portsmouth that pays |
lisa
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 | 06:53 AM
GHS Recycling in Portsmouth, has accepted plastic (polyethylene) bottle tops from Naomi House Children's Hospice in Winchester for |
charlie B
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 | 09:03 AM
Hello all. A local paper has run the "bottle tops for a wheelchair" article and our office is looking at taking on the idea. Being one of the office old-goats, I did some digging. It's Christmas and not everybody is contactable, but there does seem to be some veracity, at the moment. I'll dig on and update ASAP.
(1) The paper is the Bridgwater Mercury and the article is dated 26 June 2006. search under "bottle tops"
(2) The recycling company is GH Services Recycling of Portsmouth (02392 670399) I emailed and left an answerphone message, no reply yet. they collect a range (ie not all types) of plastics. 3 tonnes minimum.
(3) Starbucks is mentioned as well - their customer care email (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) reply to me says "....I am not sure of whether the facts included in the article are true regarding which type of lid must be collected and how much they are worth. However, I believe the milk tops our stores use have been compatible for use in this particular programme"
OK - so all-in-all, by no means a racing certainty but I'm inclined -just- to think its a goer.
I don't think that anybody is "donating" a wheelchair in return for tops, it's more about if loads of people collect tops, then somebody will buy them and that cash is used to purchase a wheelchair. So earlier correspondence about the whole scale-economics of the deal come up again, and I do agree with them - instead of tops, if my office complex simply put in 50p each, that's most of |
nicola bleeks
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 | 02:57 PM
My mum has a large number of bottle tops and she would like to give them away to someone who requires a wheelchair. |
Beth
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 | 06:32 AM
I started collecting plastic bottle tops a few months ago when a friend of a friend mentioned to me that someone was collecting them to raise money for wheelchairs for disabled children. Thinking this was an excellent idea I told everyone I knew to collect them. Since then my "source" has said they don't want them anymore, and I now have hundreds of bottle tops! Does anyone want them for a charity? If so please let me know as I hate to now throw them in the bin to not even be recycled at all!! |
Davina
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 | 10:06 AM
I have just read somewhere that Naomi house childrens hospice in winchester can take them so I have emailed them to find out........ |
Karen Denning
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 | 05:30 AM
I have the same problem as Beth in Surrey re milk bottle tops! how do you stop the co-operation of people that assume you are collecting them for ever and ever?? I have at least four black bin bags in my garage full of the things with people still passing them on by the carrier bag full!! would also be interested in finding out what to do with them rather than throwing them away! apparently not recyclable!! |
E. Caron
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 | 02:33 AM
I personally don't get it, since there's well documented urban legends linked to this, but I found the following french websites that seem to indicate there's a movement (real?) in france to recycle these bottle caps, and they've funded things with the proceeds, etc.
I can't figure for the life of me why they don't also recycle the bottles. I can't believe only the caps are recyclable. I mean, it's probably pretty much the same plastic in there.
Any knowledgeable person out there has more info? I'm curious. 😊
The links :
http://www.handisport.org/index_bouchons.php
http://www.bouchonsdamour.com/index.html |
Andy
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 | 01:17 AM
Hi all a peson at my works has just put up a poster asking people to collect bottle tops (type not specified) saying that for the weight of 1 wheelchair 2 wheelchairs will be donated unfortunatly no further information is given i.e the charity that is collecting them or the company that is recycling them. Looks like the hoaxer is getting desperate |
Linda Renwick
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 | 07:00 AM
I work for GHS Recycling in Portsmouth and we really do recycle plastic milk bottle tops for charity - I run the scheme.
We are happy to take any amount of tops and keep a tally on account for you. There is a mimumum payout of 500 kilos which is |
l.Baker
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 | 04:23 AM
Not sure what to put in here .I am tearing out my hair have collected dustbin liners of bottle tops only to find its a hoax. I do not think this is at all funny and wonder what people gain from this . Any ides of what we can do now Cheers Lorene |
Appliance parts
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 | 11:09 AM
A wheelchair (also called chair-carriage) is a wheeled mobility device in which the user sits. The device is propelled either manually (by turning the wheels by the hand) or via various automated systems. Wheelchairs are used by people for whom walking is difficult or impossible due to illness (mental or physical), injury, or disability. People with both sitting and walking disability often need to use a wheelbench. The earliest record of the wheelchair in England dates from the 1670s [Oxford English Dictionary, (2nd Ed.), 1989, Vol. XX., p. 203.], and in continental Europe this technology dates back to the German Renaissance. |
michelle
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 | 08:46 AM
HI IVE HEARD THAT YOU CAN COLLECT MILK BOTTLE TOPS TO GET A WHEELCHAIR,COULD ANYONE TELL ME HOW IT WORK AND WOT I HAVE TO DO.
THANK YOU |
Dinah Thompson
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 | 10:38 AM
I too have got millions or that's what it feels like, of plastic bottle tops, that we at prison had been collecting for a charity... that charity has now for some unseen reason stopped. We still have megga amounts of bottle tops of which we don't want to throw away but do you know of anywhere, where they need such items? |
shannon
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 | 09:11 AM
I know that my local pub was collecting the tops off of natch cans to get an old chappie in there a new wheelchair. |
Neil
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 | 01:39 PM
I have spent a lttle time on the web and a few phone calls,and have now found a recycler who will take as meny milk bottle tops(red,green and blue and they do not have to be sorted into colours)as we can get,and they will pay us |
Linda Renwick
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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 | 07:16 AM
I would be very wary of a company offering that sort of money. Its top dollar and I doubt if they will keep it up for long. |
Sarah
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 | 12:12 AM
There is a new variant on the bottlecap hoax - bottle caps for chemo (in the USA). It seems to use the "caps for chemo" name (headwear for people made bald through chemo treatments) and married it to the bottle cap hoax. The American Cancer Society has confirmed it is a hoax and have been getting dozens of calls every day wanting to know where to take the caps. Some versions say the chemo is for children in Uganda.
http://newsandsentinel.com/page/content.detail/id/508288.html
http://llewtrah.blogspot.com/2008/08/caps-for-chemo.html
http://www.bdtonline.com/local/local_story_247203955.html
http://www.wkee.com/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=118957&article=4110153
http://www.wsaz.com/newswestvirginia/headlines/27086374.html
http://www.examiner.com/r-1636733~Bottle_Cap_Drive_for_Cancer_a_Hoax.html
Some comments on news sites say "it's not a hoax, you just have to know where to take them" but those folks are in denial since the hospitals themselves are saying people are turning up at their loading bays with van-loads of bottle caps and the hospitals have tried to find which clinic to pass them onto or called the American Cancer Society.
A commercial use has been found for some bottle caps, but in general they aren't suitable for recycling (the US seems to lag behind the UK in that respect)
http://www.wtap.com/news/headlines/27807734.html |
Sarah
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 | 05:38 AM
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MED/content/MED_6_1x_Bottle_Caps_for_Chemo.asp?sitearea=MED
Email:
This email claims that a large number of bottle caps, some say 1,000, others 1,500 or even 10,000, can be redeemed for one chemotherapy treatment for a patient in need. The email, which began making rounds in the USA in 2008, generated several news stories in Virginia and West Virginia, some of which repeated the claims while others refuted them.
Fact:
After extensive research, the American Cancer Society has concluded that the Plastic Bottle Caps for Chemo program is a hoax. The origin of the hoax remains unclear, but it is similar to other |
Emily
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 | 07:33 AM
I have collected a decent amount of bottle tops to use in the classroom as bingo chips. It takes quite a few. Last night I saw a vat full of bottle tops and asked what the deal was. I was told about "caps for chemo" and immediately said I was going to look up and see if it was a hoax.
I found this blog. Thanks for all the information. I will continue to use my collected bottle tops as bingo pieces we my students use a game for academic review. |
Neil
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 | 05:56 AM
Hi Dinah
If you still have all those tops and dont know what to do with them would you be willing to donate them to the M.S.Society for which I am collecting I will arrange transport. Many Thanks |
Adelle
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 | 10:33 AM
I don't know where to take them ether please help |
Linda Renwick
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 | 12:08 PM
Adelle,
Try The Green Centre in Brighton http://www.thegreencentre.co.uk |
Jess
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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 | 09:06 AM
I am a leader at my local brownies and i would like them to get involved in an activity like this. But i do not know where to go, and who i could collect bottle tops for in cornwall. Can anyone help?
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