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Cannonman17

Cannonman17

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We often read stories that give our hobby a bad rap, people not filling in their holes and what not... we also frequently complain about digging 15 billion pull tabs a year... So here's an idea:

Let's all save them... for one year- then in the name of this site and the metal detecting hobby donate them to a good cause like the Ronald McDonald house?? Can you imagine the great PR it would be for this site and the hobby? Not to even mention what a great cause??!!

I can see that story in print! It would be great for all of us! What do you all think? I suppose we would have to swish them around in some water to clean them up a bit but hey, that's not so bad...

Lets hear your feedback here!
 

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Speaking of digging holes and leaving them..... :-[ I went to the beach I like going to (to take the kid and her friend swimming<<wink wink>>) and I found that someone had been there dug tons of holes and left them open, right by the pic nick tables..oh I was steamed..I don't even dig in the grass..(just at my house ;D). So me and my friend covered them up, sad to say the beach was not a much better site to see.It looked as though a family had stayed over and left all their trash to >:( , I don't mind picking up my trash but I will not pick up someone Else's..not in this town, so that part had to stay :-\

BTW! come to my yard I dig up all kinds of pull tabs..ha ha!

"TR"
 

I will come help..lots of tabs means lots of use...could be a ring or 2 hiding there!!!!
 

That's the spirit! I was just thinking though.. it would more or less be on the shoulders of one person to take them in (if everybody sent theirs to one person) I don't know if I would be in want of that job... but if enough were collected it would be worth the while... Argghhh... I was hoping for more feedback from people about the idea... Maybe it's not that great of an idea... ??? :-\
 

Funny you should mention the pull tab idea. My 7 yr. old daughter has been taking them from me and putting them in her little Ronald McDonald House box for months now. I also recycle all cans & aluminium junk I find.

Ima
 

It's a great Idea, but as you said who is going to want to take them all in..I tried saving our cans (lord knows we drink enough soda around here) but my old man bout had a fitt, he did not want to deal with all the bugs and such. Not to mention this is the first time I have ever heard about this. And I lost a 6yr old nephew to cancer, so you would have thought we would have been told about that.
Or as you say they could take them in themselves and maybe keep a tally some where here on the site..I will have to check into this, the river/beaches around here are just trashed and I dig lots of them up. Matter of fact people would rather take the time to dig a huge hole to bury their beer cans in at the beach rather than take them to the trash cans that are provided... :-\ not that I'm a tree hugger or anything (no offense meant in that), but come on its getting crazy and unsafe to go to the beaches(around here anyway).

"TR"
 

Your heart is in the right place, but there's one thing I see wrong with your idea. Say 20,000 people collected a 1000 pulltabs each in that year, it would probably come to about $32.00. I just don't think enough of the darn things could be collected to make it worth it. I really like the general idea though.
 

WOW! that's it?? I would have thought charities like that would get more or something..whew, good thing their are still good people around that donate to places like that, cause let me tell you my sister and her son would have been in hot water with out them and Make a Wish Foundation.


"TR"
 

If 20,000 people each collected 1,000 pull tabs that would = one big pile of money. I know there was one charity here in Wisconsin where people were getting 1 free second of blood dialysis (sp?) per pull tab.... Well worth the while.. C'mon people! I was so thinking people would be more excited about the idea! By the way... the only thing that makes pull tabs slightly more valuable than whole cans is the fact that it takes less to refine them... no paint to get rid of etc.. closer to being pure aluminum already. We all end up digging a million of the darn things.. most get thrown out..
 

Cannonman, way to go my friend. I was ready to jump on the band wagon, as they say. I want to thank Jeff for his resurch and posting of what he has found out for us. Maybe if we all just saved our soda cans, etc. and turned them in then sent checks to Tnet to be collected and then one big donation could be made to the Ronald McDonald House or other worth while organization would be a better idea. ??? Just a thought.

Desertfox
 

Your scaring me brother. I recently had the same idea. I can't be specific but I do know that some places take them as contributions.
You know what? You can count me in, I'll save them, maybe even seek them out. I'll bet there's a way to give the hobby a good name by turning in a bunch of them. I do know of some schools that take them.
 

muleskinner said:
Your scaring me brother. I recently had the same idea. I can't be specific but I do know that some places take them as contributions.
You know what? You can count me in, I'll save them, maybe even seek them out. I'll bet there's a way to give the hobby a good name by turning in a bunch of them. I do know of some schools that take them.
Click to expand...

Don't Waste your Time.
Unless you Plan on Filling Soda or Beer Cans with them.

http://www.snopes.com/business/redeem/pulltabs.asp
 

Well Cannon I can drop off my 1000 in the morning.
I think the wife is loading them in the car right now. :D
 

I save all pull tabs, can slaw, etc. I dig and sell it at the end of the year. It goes into the boys college fund.

Here are some facts on pull tabs:

Pull Tab Facts
1 tab = 1 inch
36 tabs = 1 yard
63,360 tabs = 1 mile
1,000,000 tabs = 16.75 miles
1267 tabs = 1 pound
2,534,000 tabs = 1 ton
 

The fact that you can give the tabs to The Ronald McDonald House is NOT urban legend. I've been doing it myself. You can even pick up the little boxes at you local McDonald's to save them in. The legend has to do with the tabs being worth more money if collected in bulk. That, of course, is bogus. However, The Ronald McDonald House accepts them and turns them in for recycle to help with the operating cost of these "Houses".
Says so right on the Snopes link that Jeff provided (about 3/4 way down the page).

Ima :)
 

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