I am the chairperson of a pop tab program at my kids' elementary school. For anyone unfamiliar, you can pull off the tab on the top of your pop can, beer can, soup can, pet food can, etc... and do wonderous things for charity!
The charity that we go with is the Ronald McDonald House. I have been doing this project for 8 years now and have always went with them. We have made a game out of it at BC Elementary. The kids bring in their pop tabs and we collect and weigh them twice a year. We award the top class in the school with a Happy Meal party provided by our local McDonalds and the runner up class receives dessert. Once the tabs are all weighed and taken to the recycling center, the check is sent out. This money will go towards housing the families of the children in the hospital receiving treatments. What a great way for our children to learn about charity work so early in life! We ended up with just over 500 lb of pop tabs for the entire school for the first semester :)
All children and adults, who have helped out with the collecting should be extremely proud of themselves...you have done a very good deed and all you had to do was open a can of pop :)
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