Ways to Help a Charity With Bottle Caps. There are ways to raise money with both plastic and metal bottle caps. According to the Times News and Snopes, collecting plastic bottle caps to exchange for medical treatments like chemotherapy and prosthetic limbs is a hoax that has circulated all across the United States. Luckily, there are some valid programs that allow you collect bottle caps for charitable causes. There are also numerous other ways to use bottle caps to raise money for your favorite charity. The A Z Recyclery is a mostly local directory to divert some common and not so commonly recycled items from landfill disposal. It is a living document with over 85 entries. According to the Clean Air Council, 'Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.' To compound this problem, people who do recycle plastic bottles, often cannot find a recycling program that will. In the last few years, Aveda Cosmetics started recycling plastic soda bottle caps. They made a strong case for the fact that land and marine animals suffer when the mothers mistake these things for food and feed them to their. Aveda offers a program where bottle caps can be mailed to them in order to keep them out of lakes, rivers and oceans and protect birds and marine life. They work with schools to collect these caps.
With a little imagination, your bottle caps will help your favorite cause in no time. My Coke Rewards. Coca- Cola offers a program where you can enter codes from the plastic list off Coke bottles. Wondering how to turn all of those plastic bottle caps running rampant in your household into a green, planet saving endeavor? Well, lucky for you, and for marine life everywhere, Aveda has come up with an alternative solution.Codes are available on products like soft drinks, water, Powerade, Nestea, Barq's and Seagram's. The code is located on the underside of the bottle cap or inside cartons. Sign up for an account at the My Coke Rewards website, enter your codes and then designate the points to the charity of your choice that Coke supports. Aveda. Aveda offers a program where bottle caps can be mailed to them in order to keep them out of lakes, rivers and oceans and protect birds and marine life. They work with schools to collect these caps. In addition, the company uses the bottle caps on their products, thus recycling them once again. They want caps that are rigid plastic and are, as the Aveda website states, . Contact GHS to get set up for the program. Collect the milk tops and mail them to their headquarters. The money that they would typically pay for plastic items is then donated to the charity you've chosen. This program works best when there are numerous people from all over sending in the milk bottle tops for your fundraising efforts. Once enough bottle caps have been sent in for the minimum payment, a check is issued to the charity. Make Crafts and Sell Them. If you have collected hundreds of bottle caps only to discover they can't be used to buy chemotherapy treatments, consider turning them into crafts. There are simple craft ideas readily available online, such as painting them and turning them into magnets or creating small flowers. You could also turn them into necklaces, belts or checkers for a homemade checker board. Create your items and then hold an auction or craft sale to raise money for charity. About the Author. Lori Soard has been a writer since 1. Soard is also the author of several published books, both fiction and nonfiction. Photo Credits. Jupiterimages/Photos.
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