If you don’t want to “round up” for the Mickey D house, you can always collect can tabs from soda and beer cans and donate those. If you have any children in your life (kids, nephews, or nieces), this is a super fun activity for them and helps teach them altruism. And for the frugal-minded, you don’t have to spend anything extra if you already buy aluminum cans.
~Go one step further for the fun, and buy a can crusher for the kids to use after taking the tabs off (bonus: it saves trash can space so you’re taking the recycling out less).~
~For you hobbyists out there, you can also buy the materials (crucible, paint bucket, ceramic insulation, propane torches, etc) and melt the cans and do metal sculpting (or pour it down ant hills).~
You mean the pouring it down ant hills? People kill ants all the time. But the comment is not about killing ants for fun; the aluminum fills into all the ant passageways and solidifies into a really cool sculpture of sorts that you can then carefully dig out. Google it, it’s quite fascinating.
Don’t collect pull tabs. This is an urban legend that won’t seem to die. I’ve seen people with buckets of these things. Useless. They’re worth less than just getting the CRV or the recycled weight of aluminum in the whole can and just donating the money. Maybe once in a while someone might offer some cash-per-tab thing as one-off event, but I could find no charity accepting them as a form of direct donation.
Don’t collect tabs, people. Just get the CRV and donate that if you want to make a donation.
If you don’t want to “round up” for the Mickey D house, you can always collect can tabs from soda and beer cans and donate those. If you have any children in your life (kids, nephews, or nieces), this is a super fun activity for them and helps teach them altruism. And for the frugal-minded, you don’t have to spend anything extra if you already buy aluminum cans.
~Go one step further for the fun, and buy a can crusher for the kids to use after taking the tabs off (bonus: it saves trash can space so you’re taking the recycling out less).~
~For you hobbyists out there, you can also buy the materials (crucible, paint bucket, ceramic insulation, propane torches, etc) and melt the cans and do metal sculpting (or pour it down ant hills).~
The casual cruelty in that last sentence after talking about altruism was a bit jarring.
You mean the pouring it down ant hills? People kill ants all the time. But the comment is not about killing ants for fun; the aluminum fills into all the ant passageways and solidifies into a really cool sculpture of sorts that you can then carefully dig out. Google it, it’s quite fascinating.
Don’t collect pull tabs. This is an urban legend that won’t seem to die. I’ve seen people with buckets of these things. Useless. They’re worth less than just getting the CRV or the recycled weight of aluminum in the whole can and just donating the money. Maybe once in a while someone might offer some cash-per-tab thing as one-off event, but I could find no charity accepting them as a form of direct donation.
Don’t collect tabs, people. Just get the CRV and donate that if you want to make a donation.
You donate the tabs to the Ronald McDonald house in your area. It’s their shtick.