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Beth
in Surrey
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 | 08:32 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
in burnley
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 | 12:06 PM
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
in Bristol
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 | 06:30 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
in Paris
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 | 03:33 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
in Cleethorpes
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 | 02:17 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
in Portsmouth
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 | 08:00 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
in Ipswich Suffolk
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 | 05:23 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 | 12:09 PM
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
in hull
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 | 09:46 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
in Burton-on-trent
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 | 11:38 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
in bristol
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 | 10:11 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
in Wolverhampton
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 | 02:39 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
in Portsmouth
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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 | 08:16 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
in Basildon
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 | 01:12 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 | 06:38 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
in Tennessee
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 | 08:33 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
in Wolverhampton
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 | 06:56 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
in brighton
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 | 11:33 AM
I don't know where to take them ether please help |
Linda Renwick
in Portsmouth
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 | 01:08 PM
Adelle,
Try The Green Centre in Brighton http://www.thegreencentre.co.uk |
Jess
in helston, cornwall
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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 | 11:06 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?
Jess |
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