Where can I donate Can-Tabs?

Question

I have been collecting can tabs for the past three years, only to find out that the place where I had planned to donate them to originally no longer exists. Are there any organizations which collect can tabs (off the top of soda) as a fundraiser or for part of a recycling program.

Websites would be great as well! Thank you!

Answer 1

I volunteer at the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House, which has a Pull Tab program as a major fundraiser.  Ronald McDonald Houses offer families of sick children a cheap place to stay while their children are being treated at a nearby hospital.  Find one near you where you can drop off the tabs.

http://www.rmhc.org/search_cm/

Answer 2

The largest recycler of tabs in the United States is McDonalds House Charities (492 million as of 12-31-2007), of which my cubbies from Cub Scout Pack 526 Hiawathaland Council donated 3,343,737 tabs..

In the case of McDonalds, you do not have to find a McDonalds House Charity to donate too, you just have to find a McDonalds. The delivery trucks for thier food distibution system is already reverse co-ordinated to deliver tabs.

Howevere, should you know of a more worthy charity which you would like to donate to, you can always start your own tab redemption program. Contact your local recycling centers, 82% of them accept tabs as CLEAN ALUMINUM, and that can fetch you from 50 cents to a dollar a pound, but realize that it takes 834 to 1,538 tabs to equal 1 pound (I have identified 158 different tabs so far, of which 21 are not aluminum). Once you have converted your tabs to cash, you can donate the funds to a charity of your choice..

One other option, E-Bay...believe it or not people pay from $3 to $8 per thousand for tabs, they need them for arts and crafts projects, and I have sold the colored tabs in the $12-$20 range per thousand

Answer 3

My friends used to donate to a hospital.  I doubt that is in your area though.  Try google.