pop tabs

Buddy asked me were to turn in pop tabs??

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.

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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

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.

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/

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.

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.