About the Pop Tabs Drive Why are we doing this drive?
The aluminum tabs have high recycling value which Ronald McDonald House turns into cash, which is placed in the Family Fund, to help provide comfort and care to families and their seriously ill children.
These tabs don’t have to just come from pop/soda cans. They can come from beer cans etc., basically your typical pop “tab.”
The tabs contain the most valuable aluminum alloy in cans and take up little collection or storage space.
How are we implementing the collection?
AMSA is asking all of you to get involved! We already have envelopes for the tabs ready for you. We plan to have a volunteer on each floor of each residential hall and/or each kitchen in Greek housing, The Village at 115 etc.
Simply notify your peers to save their tabs, and to place them in the appropriate envelope or box in their kitchen area.
If the box or envelope is full, simply store that away, and replace it with an empty box or envelope.
Bring all your tabs to the General Body Meetings for collection and delivery to Ronald McDonald House!
Pop Tab Fun Facts
The Ronald McDonald House Pop Tab Collection Program was established in 1987 by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Ronald McDonald House community.
To date, more than 400 million pop tabs have been collected, generating more than $4 million.
The ring-pull can was invented in 1962.
The pop tab was invented by Ermal Fraze in Kettering, Ohio.
Kettering's Fraze Pavilion, a popular amphitheater in Dayton, Ohio, is named after the pop tab inventor.
Pop Tab Measurement Equivalents
1 inch = 1 pop tab
1 foot = 12 pop tabs
1 meter = 40 pop tabs
1 lb = 1,267 pop tabs
1 km = 40,000 pop tabs
1 mile = 63,360 pop tabs
| Pop Tabs Drive: Spring 2007 As one of the organization’s top community service project, the Pop Tabs Drive was established to benefit the Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland. The purest form of aluminum is used in making the tabs for cans. By collecting the tabs, Ronald McDonald House simply recycled the tabs that were collected to raise money for their programs, such as the Family Fund, which helps meet family needs beyond food and shelter. At the staff's discretion, the Family Fund is used to purchase special seasonal items, such as a winter coat and boots; birthday cake, decorations and presents; or to send weary parents on a "date." The project was collaborated between the Residential Hall Association, Greek Life, Murray Hill Hall Council, Barnes & Noble University Bookstore, and Case AMSA Pre-Medicine Chapter. AMSA members volunteered their time and efforts to place envelopes in residential halls, high-traffic areas in buildings, and even went through recycling bins to obtain tabs off of cans for collection. Students also had the option to bring their tabs to the general body meetings for collection. In the end, the chapter collected approximately 20,000 pop tabs during the five week drive. Of course, this is just start. Case AMSA Pre-Med, along with other organizations such as the Ohio Upsilon Sigma Phi Epsilon Chapter, whose goal is to collect 1,000,000 tabs every year for the Ronald McDonald House, is considering to have the drive year-round for the next academic year, with the same goal of 1,000,000 tabs. Another project that is in consideration is collaborating with Novelis Incorporated, a company that recycles close to 50% of all aluminum cans in North America alone, to further boost efforts in fundraising for the Ronald McDonald House, as well as potentially explore the option of helping Habitat For Humanity, which through Novelis, has raised over 2 million dollars for the organization through aluminum can recycling. This will ensure AMSA’s commitment to serving the community, as well as adding a new tradition to our never-ending list of programs. |