Don’t forget to save your drink can tabs for the Cincinnati
Shriner’s Burn Hospital
See their web site at:
http://www.shrinershq.org/Hospitals/Main/
Yes, more
money can be made from recycling the whole can.
The tab is
not worth any more than the rest of the can.
It takes 31
cans to make 1 lb,
and
approximately 933 tabs to make 1 lb.
Those 933
tabs represent 933 cans or (933/31) 30 pounds of aluminum.
So there is
a ratio of 30 to 1.
BUT, people
can’t mail cans in. The whole can is messier and more complicated for
individuals to deal with. You need more
storage space. You can have insect problems, as well as the mess from all those
drops left in the cans, which is why folks will put the whole can in a recycle
bin. It is too involved for a large group fundraising effort to deal with the
whole can. The tabs are smaller, lighter, less messy, take up less room, can be
mailed in, and still give folks the feeling that they are helping as well as
recycling for the environment.
There is
some psychological process involved here, in that folks are willing to go to so
much trouble to recycle and save those tiny tabs to help some one else, but are
not willing to do the extra work to recycle the whole can for the same reasons.