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lara
in nottingham
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 | 07:19 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=lara-san@hotmail.co.uk] |
Su Morgan
in Winchester
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 | 06:03 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
in Dunfermline
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 | 09:49 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
in UK
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 | 11:52 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
in Brisbane, Australia
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 | 02:19 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
in unkown
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Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 | 08:26 AM
i think this is no scam it is a charitable cause that i have collected for |
heather b
in south east
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Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 | 09:42 AM
If u want my plastic bottle tops e-mail me. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) |
Ro
in Derby
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 | 06:22 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 | 05:53 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
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 | 10:38 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
in Teesside
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 | 07:43 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
in North Carolina
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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 | 07:50 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. www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_077.html so if you have an idea of what this article is talking about PLEASE tell me. |
Kevin
in Ilford, Essex
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 | 05:11 AM
I sent an e-mail today, 9th October 2006, to 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
in Somerset England
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 | 11:08 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
in Hampshire
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 | 04:41 PM
Sorry, it IS a hoax. Simple arithmetic can tell you. |
Stephen F Allen
in lincoln
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Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 | 07:41 AM
where can I dispose of bottom tops collected in lincoln? |
Susan
in staffs uk
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 | 12:19 PM
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
in portsmouth
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 | 08:53 AM
GHS Recycling in Portsmouth, has accepted plastic (polyethylene) bottle tops from Naomi House Children's Hospice in Winchester for |
charlie B
in Somerset
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 | 11:03 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
in stewartstown co.Tyrone Northern Ireland
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 | 04:57 PM
My mum has a large number of bottle tops and she would like to give them away to someone who requires a wheelchair. |
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