How many pop tabs in a pound

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The sweetest way to support the Ronald McDonald House Charities
Support RMHC Carolinas by Donating Pop Tabs
One Family’s Trash is Another Family’s Treasure
Million Tabs Club
School Program (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
Buy a Pop Tab Bracelet
How much does 1 pop tab weigh?
How much is a pop can tabs worth?
How many pounds is a million pop tabs?
How many tabs does it take to make a wheelchair?

The sweetest way to support the Ronald McDonald House Charities

It takes approximately 1,128 pop tabs to equal one pound. We typically receive between $0.40 to $0.50 per pound of pop tabs. This program brings in an average of $6,000 each year. Last year you donated over 13 million pop tabs! We accept more than just soda pop tabs. The tabs can come from energy drinks, soup cans, or anything with a metallic tab.

Our Pop Tab program is important because it provides extra revenue that can help make up for the donations that families cannot make. To house one family at Ronald McDonald House Charities© of the Coastal Empire is between $100-$140 per night. That is a total of $1,157-$1,625 a night when our 13-bedroom House is full. We ask for a $10 per night room contribution from our families, but no family is turned away based on the inability to pay.

After collecting your pop tabs you can drop them off any time in the pop tab house by the entrance of the House located at 4710 Waters Ave, Savannah Ga.

Support RMHC Carolinas by Donating Pop Tabs

When large amounts of aluminum pop tabs are collected at the House, we take them to a recycling center. According to the price of aluminum, the recycling center gives us a check. This check goes back into the House for general operating expenses – keeping our doors open to continue to serve our families. Read below and watch the video for more information.

One Family’s Trash is Another Family’s Treasure

Collecting pop tabs is a fun and easy way to give back to the Ronald McDonald House in Greenville – perfect for all ages and groups. You may start collecting aluminum tabs in any large container. There is no need to count the tabs. Most organizations bring their tabs twice a year.

You may bring pop tabs to the House anytime our office is open—just check out our office hours! Make sure they are 100% aluminum (if a magnet sticks, it is not aluminum). Please mark your container (just one paper note will do for the whole donation) with the organization/individual’s name and address.

Million Tabs Club

The Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Carolinas began collecting aluminum pop tabs for membership in the Million Tabs Club on October 15, 2009. If you join, you will be welcomed as members of the club when you reach one million tabs collected. There is no expected end date in sight as we hope to eventually go to the billion club.

One pound equals approximately 1,000 tabs, therefore 1,000 pounds equals one million tabs. If you collect tabs in regular sized copy paper boxes, it takes about 50 to 55 (depending on how full you pack them) of those to make a million.

You are responsible for weighing and keeping track of the pounds you have collected. You are on the honor system! You do not have to wait to bring your tabs until you have a million tabs collected.

All Million Tabs Club members will receive a certificate and will be listed on the plaque which resides inside our House. We would love to have you or your group participate!

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The Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Carolinas loves to partner with schools! The School Program is perfect for Beta Clubs, Honor Society, and any service club with volunteer hours. Feel free to use our resources below:

Buy a Pop Tab Bracelet

Many canned drinks have colored pop tabs. Our volunteers use those colored pop tabs to make unique bracelets (one size fits all). Pop Tab bracelets are sold for $10 each. The $10 covers a night for a family to stay at the House. All proceeds go directly to our House!

Have questions about donating pop tabs or purchasing a Pop Tab bracelet?

Other Ways To Participate

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It doesn't take much effort to save pull tabs, which add up.

(Marc Bona, cleveland.com)

CLEVELAND, Ohio - It's easy to dismiss the tab on a can. Finish the drink, toss the can, and it's out of sight, out of mind.

The evolution of can lids went from a flat, utilitarian top that required you to use a church key to punch down air and drinking holes on opposite ends of the metal top. Then came the pull tab, or ring tab. Pull it up, curl your finger underneath, and rip off. Detached from the can they ended up as litter or back in the cans (great choking fodder).

Then came the current pop top / pull tab / StaTab that remains attached. But if you flip it up and back a few times it comes off. And that's what the folks at Ronald McDonald House like. Officials there turn them in to local recycling centers to defray costs at the house.

Pull tabs are a high-grade aluminum that offer "more bang for your buck" to save vs. cans, said Meri Skiera, director of programs and services for Ronald McDonald House of Akron. "It's doable for everybody to store and manage as a program."

Cans take up space, smell, and attract bugs, and facilities like the Ronald McDonald House don't have storage capacity, she said.

"I do talks to senior groups, Kiwanis, whatever," she said. "It's inevitable. There will be one person who says 'I've got two milk jugs in my trunk. I've been carrying them around for two years - want 'em?' I can't tell you how often that has happened to me.

"It doesn't involve money; it's just effort. It's all positive, whether you've got two tabs or 2,000 tabs," she said. "It's something that's less than a penny, but when everyone pulls together it's an awesome statement."

Here are five facts about pull tabs:

* A million tabs would weigh about 800 pounds. It takes more than 1,200 tabs to equal a pound. And about 63,360 pull tabs laid out would be a mile.

* The program in Akron kicked off about five years ago, Skiera said. Ronald McDonald House of Akron uses Metalico Annaco of Akron for its recycling.

* Skiera said the Akron program brings in about $4,000 a year, with a rate of about 55 cents per pound. "That number will fluctuate based on the value of metal," said Skiera, who added the rate floats between 30 and 75 cents.

* Daniel F. Cudzik of Reynolds Metals Co. invented the tab in use today. He received a patent in 1976. His stay-on tab replaced the ring tab, which was invented in 1965. And yes, as long as they are aluminum, the old ring tabs are accepted today, Skiera said.

* Snopes.com says a million pull tabs have a recycle value of about $366. A hundred have a scrap-metal value of about 3 and a half cents, though that fluctuates.

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How much does 1 pop tab weigh?

A pop tab weighs 0.3 grams; the whole can weighs 14.4 grams. At 453.6 grams to the pound, the tab-harvester would throw away 1,512 cans to get a pound of tabs -- a loss of 48 pounds of recyclable aluminum. Another problem with this is that tabs are sharp and hazardous to little fingers.

How much is a pop can tabs worth?

We typically receive between $0.40 to $0.50 per pound of pop tabs.

How many pounds is a million pop tabs?

One pound equals approximately 1,000 tabs, therefore 1,000 pounds equals one million tabs.

How many tabs does it take to make a wheelchair?

It takes a lot of tabs to buy a wheelchair — and Buccini has done the math. There are 1,500 tabs in a pound, and each pound is worth about 60 cents. That means for Tabs to buy a $6,000 wheelchair, it needs about 9,500 lbs. of tabs — or about 14 million.