Anyone collect foil milk bottle tops for charity?

sparklymessygirl

Hello,

My mum has been collecting foil milk bottle tops for years for some charity but they have stopped taking them - but she has still been stockpiling them! Does anyone know of anywhere to donate them, please?

Thank you
Sparkly

mookybargirl

One of our local schools was collecting these a few months ago. I would phone round your local schools and ask if they are collecting and if not, to keep your telephone number should they want them in the future. It shouldn't take long to find someone who can put them to good use.

jo_b_2

Had a quick search on the internet and found this:

http://www.alupro.org.uk/word%20docs/projects/Saffron%20Walden.htm

Don't know if that would be any use.

sparklymessygirl

Jo - thanks very much for this - I thought there was some organisation with a similar name out there but couldn't remember the name - I will give them a ring!

Cheers
Sparkly x

lynda3959

Hi I am new to the board! Does anyone here collect milk bottle tops for charity? My contact no longer wants them.

oldtoolie

The only charity I know of that does this is the Rose Road Association in Southampton see:

https://www.roseroad.org/?f=Fundraising/recycling.htm

I'm not sure how they raise money with this. There is a plastics recycler in Portsmouth that will pay £50 per TON for clean bottle caps delivered to their site.

One ton is about 200 black bin bags. About 2.5p per pound or 25p per bag.

So if a good wheel chair costs about £400, you would need 8 tons of bottle caps. Which is about the size of a house.

Think MSE before spending time and money moving bottle caps to Southampton.

Larry Boyd
Tools for Self Reliance
https://www.tfsr.org

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Thanks to MSE for making TFSR one of your charities of the year

josie

oldtoolie wrote: »

The only charity I know of that does this is the Rose Road Association in Southampton see:

https://www.roseroad.org/?f=Fundraising/recycling.htm

I'm not sure how they raise money with this. There is a plastics recycler in Portsmouth that will pay £50 per TON for clean bottle caps delivered to their site.

One ton is about 200 black bin bags. About 2.5p per pound or 25p per bag.

So if a good wheel chair costs about £400, you would need 8 tons of bottle caps. Which is about the size of a house.

Think MSE before spending time and money moving bottle caps to Southampton.

Larry Boyd
Tools for Self Reliance
https://www.tfsr.org

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Thanks to MSE for making TFSR one of your charities of the year

WARNING:eek: We collected for a good few months and my old place of work and guess what, when you come to find the company / person that started it, it's all a hoax. I'm glad you found a company that accepts them as there are a lot of hoaxes around these (and Walker's crisp packets)

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/161/161960_bottletop_aid_for_kids_was_a_hoax.html

LindaRenwick

At GHS Recycling in Portsmouth we run a scheme where we will take any amount of milk bottle tops and keep this on file and let you know every 2 months how your total is mounting up. We pay £25 for every 500 kgs on a pro rata basis (minimum payout is on 500 kilos)

At present we have 30 groups across the south of England who are collecting for 16 different charities.

It is a slow process BUT it is another way of being greener and it is something for nothing!!

www.ghsrecyclingltd.co.uk
02392 670399

steph009

I am a primary school teacher and would love them if they are foil. We use them for loads of craft projects and never have enough!

ahai1

Can anyone explain the economics of this? I was wondering with high fuel prices.

Mirka

Hello,
I am looking for silver milk bottle tops which were used in 1939 and were collected for charities. They will be used in a scene in a film for BBC TV. does anyone know where to get them? Many thanks best regards Mirka