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Ozymandias
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 | 11:04 AM
It sounds stupid, expensive and nonsensicle. Also, it sounds slightly glurgy. So it most likely is false.'
And I know I misspelled a word. It's 903 AM, so... |
Greg
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Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 | 06:30 AM
NOT A SCAM:
The plastic bottle top scam is NOT a scam! I have been collecting bottle tops for 3 months now, and even watched while the plastic was melted down at our local recycling centre, for the young boy who gets the wheelchair!!!
He has Cerebral Palsy, and he HAS now got a wheelchair after collectin his own body weight!!! |
Brian
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 | 06:20 AM
I find it difficult to believe that it is not a scam. Wasteonline says "At present we are not aware of any group that will accept plastic bottle tops either for cash, or as a means of donating a wheelchair or any other piece of accessibility equipment" - http://www.wasteonline.org.uk/resources/InformationSheets/Plastics.htm and the World Packaging Organisation says that "In France this summer, UK holidaymakers with an environmentally aware attitude will have noted that every type of container has its own disposal point at each |
Brian
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 | 06:48 AM
I've done a bit more searching. There is an interesting publication about setting up a waste plastic recycling business available from The Scottish Agricultural College http://www1.sac.ac.uk/info/External/Publications/MiscellaneousReports.asp
It gives the price you'd expect get for scrap plastic at around |
Sarah
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 | 03:50 PM
This is not a scam....I am also collecting plastic bottle tops for my husbands work colleague to enable her son to get a wheel chair. |
Brian
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 | 10:42 AM
OK. When he gets it, post the website of the local newspaper (surely they'll want to report it) so that we can see the article about it. Maybe, in the meantime, you'd like to say who's so generously providing the wheelchair? |
Brian
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 | 11:45 AM
I only ask this because even a basic wheelchair costs about |
Megan
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Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 | 08:54 AM
We are collecting milk bottle tops in North Devon and are extremely keen to find out whether it is a hoax. I think it is a boy in Launceston. This is driving me crazy 'cause I need to know whether to continue collecting - please help! |
Alex B
in San Diego
Member
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Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 | 10:34 AM
Who's going to pay you for collecting these bottle tops? Who's sponsoring it? |
Megan
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Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 | 12:22 PM
No one is paying us to collect them, it is for charity. I'm not sure who is sponsoring it. I have very little information. As usual with these things it has been passed from one person to another to but I am keen to gather any facts anyone may have. |
Alex B
in San Diego
Member
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Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 | 03:16 PM
The only way to confirm if these things are for real is to know who's sponsoring the campaign, and then check with them that they REALLY ARE sponsoring it. |
Brian
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 | 06:12 AM
Of course, this site http://www.shartwell.freeserve.co.uk/humor-site/walkers-hoax.htm is the one which pops up at the top of the list when you Google the subject.
Just scroll down to 'Bottle tops for wheelchairs' for loads of information on the subject. I've found nothing to contradict what it says. |
Megan
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 | 07:03 AM
I have had a response from Dairy Crest, they say that it is nothing to do with them and most probably a hoax. I have come across nothing which says that it isn't a hoax. It is a shame that people have put time and effort to this scheme and to no avail. I'm hacked off, annoyed and cross that kind people will be disappointed, not to mention the waste that I thought was being recycled! |
Sarah
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 | 07:18 AM
Eastern Daily Press Newspaper Report on Bottle Top Hoax.
Excerpts:-
A spokeswoman for the British Plastics Federation also said that there were no schemes for recycling bottle tops for cash.
Steve Webb, from waste and recycling group Waste Watch, said: "We have had quite a lot of people that have collected them and tried to cash them in but didn't find anywhere to take them. The plastic involved is of low grade anyway and is more or less worthless compared with other plastics."
The group (Waste Watch) have also posted a warning on its website that there is nowhere in Britain that takes the bottle tops in exchange for cash or wheelchairs.
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Babs
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 | 08:45 AM
Oh boy, have collected so many of these and now think that it MUST be a hoax. Why is Greg the only person who seems sure it's not. Greg, unless you too are a hoaxer can you please give details of the recycling company you claim will take these?
Ta |
Megan
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 | 10:33 AM
Yes, come forward Greg whoever you are |
Richard
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 | 01:57 PM
Boy am I glad to find this site. I can now safely get rid of the billions of plastic bottle tops I have managed to collect. I approached local schools and businesses to collect also. Each and every one of them only too delighted to help. However it is me with egg on my chin as I now need to shift the bloody things. If anyone wants them just let me know. I thought about approaching local art colleges to see if they wanted to make a huge plastic wheelchair so we can all remember the great hoax!! Quite frankly though I couldnt be bothered I have done enough arseing about already. |
Richard
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 | 02:03 PM
Also I am now collecting ten pound notes. Any donations greatfully received. If I get enough I will buy some bloody wheelchairs myself. |
Richard
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Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 | 01:49 PM
Sent a further e-mail to Kerry Pollard MP as I had seen on his site that a young man had alledgedly collected 90,000 tops and received three wheelchairs. I e-mailled his office to see if they could forward some details. This is the reply I received, 'UNFORTUNATELY EXTENSIVE ENQUIRIES BY CONSTITUENCY OFFICE STAFF HAVE RESULTED IN NO POSSIBLE OUTLET FOR PLASTIC BOTTLE TOPS' I think its safe to say we can all get rid of our tops cant we. |
Sarah
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 | 09:08 AM
After much searching online, the only UK collection I have found that accepts and recycles bottle tops (as scrap, not for wheelchairs) is detailed at
GHS & Smile plastics tops recycling and Naomi House recycling
The minimum recyclable amount seems to be 1 tonne (approx 100,000 bottle tops, worht |
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