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TK South Orange
Citizen
Username: Tk_south_orange
Post Number: 53
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 2:26 pm: | 
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Does anyone know of a place I can donate soda pop tabs?
I can't seem to find an actual - I take them - place. |
Marc
Citizen
Username: Bautisma
Post Number: 157
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 2:51 pm: |
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what are they used for |
Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2492
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 3:23 pm: |
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My 12 year old collects them. She leaves them all over the house. Drives me crazy. Maybe she'll take your donations, so she can drive me crazier. Oh, never mind.
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing
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SoOrLady
Citizen
Username: Soorlady
Post Number: 465
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 3:28 pm: |
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The tab's weight is actually heavier than the can's - it's a recycling thing. I know a church in Stockton that collects them - it's a mission project - they've helped to purchase medical equipment. |
Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2493
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 3:37 pm: |
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Good. Maybe I can channel my daughter's energy for "collecting" them into something useful. Do you have info?
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing
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Joan
Citizen
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 2605
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 5:10 pm: |
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The Maplewood Fire Department is collecting aluminum cans, not just the tabs. |
papayagirl
Citizen
Username: Papayagirl
Post Number: 184
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 7:47 pm: |
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I once saw a guy on the train drinking many beers on the way home. (It was one of those snowy day hell commutes that lasted over an hour with lots of people standing in the aisles.) Every time he popped one open, he'd lick the tab and stick it in his pocket. Finally, someone asked him why, and he explained that (and i'm probably screwing this up a little) the tabs are made of solid aluminum, whereas the cans are made of some sort of mix. So the tabs are more valuable and can be recycled for things that the cans can't. His father-in-law who has kidney problems collects the tabs, and through some organization, he's able to trade them in for extra dialysis time.
Then the guy finally had to go to the bathroom, but he was trapped in the packed aisle, many cars from the nearest lavatory, and it was kinda funny.
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Soda
Citizen
Username: Soda
Post Number: 1210
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 8:30 am: |
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What's all this I'm hearing about people donating to pay off my father's tabs? My Dad was almost completely solvent at the time of his death, and I defy anybody to produce any evidence that any of the tabs at any of the thirty or forty bars he frequented haven't been paid off. Now, I admit, it did take several years, but that's all behind me now, and I'd like to move on without all this posthumous character assassination about my old man. Why, my old man was a saint! He was the best dad a guy could ask for, and I DARE you to say anything bad about him. Go on... say something...
say anything... like... like, he shouldn't have been paroled...
Enough. I've had it with this thread. You're all just a bunch of bullies. So there. |
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