Plastic Bottle Caps Collected

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Staten Island Advance [NY]
11 April 2009

Hoax cons kindhearted students
Kids at several Island schools collect bottle caps for charity only to learn that its a scam

By AMISHA PADNANI
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE

[...] Students at PS 46 in South Beach were thrilled when they learned that for every 1,000 plastic bottle caps they sent to a charity, a child with cancer would get chemotherapy treatment. In fact, they set up collection buckets right away. [...]

The students at PS 46 aren't the only ones on Staten Island to have fallen for the hoax; collection boxes were spotted at St. Joseph by-the-Sea High School in Huguenot, St. Clare's School in Great Kills and several doctors' offices. [...]

Pull Tab Collectors Disappointed

http://www.gazette.net/stories/01072009/potonew204919_32473.shtml

The Gazette [Gaithersburg, MD]
7 January 2009

Collectors find can tabs not worth much
Those who collect tabs for money, charity often met with disappointment

by Erin Donaghue
Staff Writer

[...] Rumors surrounding the mythical pull tab have surged in recent weeks, according to employees at the Montgomery Scrap Corporation. While they haven't heard about the dialysis machine rumor, office manager Anna Tompkins-Garcia told The Gazette that the corporation is getting an influx of calls from people who think that a gallon jug of pull tabs can be traded in for anywhere from $600 to $1,000. [...]

"I don't know if it's because of the holidays or because money has been tight for people, but all of a sudden they were just receiving this huge volume of calls," Tompkins-Garcia said. [...]

ASU Students Collect Plastic Bottle Caps for Chemotherapy

http://theapp.appstate.edu/content/view/4339/40/

The Appalachian [Appalachian State University, Boone, NC]
11 November 2008

Students collect caps despite possible hoax

by NIKKI ROBERTI
Lifestyles Reporter

When Beth M. Coggins told her Christian group about an elementary school student with cancer, they did not hesitate to help in Coggin's fundraising efforts.

Coggins began collecting bottle caps for an initiative where one bag of bottle caps equals one free treatment of chemotherapy. [...]

Use Found for Collected Plastic Bottle Caps

http://wvgazette.com/News/200809030250

The Charleston Gazette [WV]
3 September 2008

Use found for bottle caps collected in cancer hoax

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (AP) -- A use has been found for thousands of plastic bottle caps residents across West Virginia collected for cancer treatments before finding out the drive was a hoax.

Hair and skin care company Aveda will use them to make new caps for its products, said West Virginia American Cancer Society spokeswoman Amy Berner. [...]

http://www.register-herald.com/features/local_story_246193630.html?keyword=topstory

Register-Herald [Beckley, WV]
2 September 2008

Salon to take bottle caps

By Audrey Stanton
Register-Herald Reporter

http://aveda.aveda.com/aboutaveda/caps.asp

RECYCLE CAPS WITH AVEDA

http://www.bdtonline.com/local/local_story_262203623.html

Bluefield Daily Telegraph [WV]
18 September 2008

Hair salon puts collected caps to good use

By GREG JORDAN
Bluefield Daily Telegraph

Bottle Caps Collected for Cancer Treatment (W. Va.)

http://wvgazette.com/latest/200808180252

The Charleston Gazette [WV]
18 August 2008

Va. bottle cap drive for cancer a hoax

By The Associated Press

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. -- A bizarre hoax has fooled residents across West Virginia who thought they were helping raise money for cancer patients.

Churches, restaurants and businesses from Wheeling to Bluefield have been collecting plastic bottle caps, fueled by flyers that claim the caps can be redeemed for money to pay for cancer treatment. [...]

http://www.register-herald.com/local/local_story_232221731.html

Register-Herald [Beckley, WV]
19 August 2008

Bottle cap hoax upsets residents, but shows how much folks care

Audrey Stanton
Register-Herald Features Editor

If plastic bottle caps could help cancer victims receive chemotherapy treatments, many southern West Virginia residents would benefit.

Unfortunately, plastic bottle caps don't do anything more than keep liquids from spilling.

When news broke Monday confirming that collection of such caps to help raise money for cancer patients was a hoax, area stores and businesses did away with collection bins that sometimes held thousands of pop bottle lids. [...]

Collecting Bottle Tops for Charity

http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/news/north-east-news/2008/07/06/top-efforts-were-all-in-vain-79310-21269426/

Sunday Sun [UK]
6 July 2008

Top efforts were all in vain

by Ruari O Toole, Sunday Sun

PEOPLE all over the North have collected thousands of plastic bottle tops to help a charity to buy wheelchairs . . . but it turned out to be an urban myth.

Some conscientious collectors have ended up with garages full of lids and nowhere to send them. [...]

http://blog.sundaysun.co.uk/2008/06/milk_bottle_tops_lots_of_milk.html

Sunday Sun [UK]
25 June 2008

Milk bottle tops - LOTS of milk bottle tops

Posted by Tony Hitchens

I've got some milk bottle tops can you do anything with them - said the email.

I know that last week I wrote that I would continue my examination of my waste and recycling but that was before I received an interesting email from someone who had been collecting lots of milk bottle tops. [...]

http://www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/news/2328320.m5ec/?from=ec&to=2328320&l=recycling_our_milk_bottle_tops

Kidderminster Shuttle [UK]
11 June 2008

Letters

Recycling our milk bottle tops

FOR some time now we have been collecting plastic milk bottle tops for various charities.

Mainly they sell the plastic for re-cycling and the cash then goes to provide wheelchairs. [...]

Pull-Tab Collection

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080508/GJNEWS03/682072266/-1/SANNEWS

Sanford News [ME]
8 May 2008

Springvale girl collects pull-tabs to benefit Ronald McDonald House

By Ellen W. Todd Sanford News Writer

SPRINGVALE - Abbie Davis has collected more than 13,000 pull-tabs from beverage cans. [...]

She said she went on the Internet to learn something about pull-tabs and saw something about them being used to help people who need kidney dialysis. She decided she'd collect them to help people. [...]

[Happily for Abbie, a local Ronald McDonald House accepted her pull-tabs.]