Collecting Bottle Caps For Cancer Treatments

I live in shelby north carolina.

Collecting bottle caps for cancer treatments.

Caps on cartons such as those for milk orange juice etc. The supposed charity drive is a hoax that began in the united states in 2008. I got started after a family member mentioned saving the bottle caps after being told about this cause by a family friend who happens to work at the hospital that they are donated to. Caps on baby food pouches.

Kindhearted residents of the orangeburg area have been collecting plastic bottle caps thinking they were helping to pay for chemotherapy treatments for a sick child. For the past six months russel s great aunt has been fighting lung cancer. My family and i have been collecting the caps for about three months now russel said. Not many nonprofits collect bottle caps.

Caps of loves a florida based charity provides wheelchairs to disabled children in the united states. You list this as a false. Fortunately a nurse who worked for the hospital told her family about how they could collect plastic bottle caps to fund the treatments. If it is for cancer treatments i am a 4 year cancer survivor and would send then where they are needed.

If you are ever asked to collect bottle caps for a worthy cause be on guard most charities do not do anything with bottle caps. It s a versatile material that is valuable to recycling operations. The scheme became so widespread the american cancer society issued a statement. If so please let me know.

Reposting this false and misleading information will do nothing whatsoever to help children with cancer. In mexico one of the world s top consumers of sugary soft drinks even the poorest communities can do their bit for charity by collecting and donating bottle caps. Remember plastic takes over 500 years to biodegrade if ever. The american cancer society.

Did you know bottle top plastic caps are typically made from plastic 5 while the bottles are made from 2. These include but are not limited to. Soda bottle caps are made from a type of plastic called polypropylene. Paul s church in chichester and ghs recycling which donates the proceeds to the charity of the donor s choice.

Charities which collect and recycle plastic bottle caps in the united kingdom include the matthew project st. Collected via e mail april 2015 hi i saw that you have an article on collecting plastic bottle caps to redeem for wheelchairs chemo etc. Plastic caps on glass bottles. Does anyone else know anything about this.

My family has been saving plastic bottle caps a woman at church was collecting them and she said they have enough.