How you can help collect can tabs
It's easy, fun and for a great cause!
Collect can tabs all year from family, friends, neighbors and work.
Collecting can tabs is easy. Getting people to remember to save their tabs is hard. So we'll try and make that easy for you too.
We found that plastic baggies or plastic bowls work well. If you are collecting tabs in a high traffic area, then possibily even a pail would work well. Make sure to drop a few of your own can tabs in the container to "prime the pump".
Monitor your tab collection center(s) regularly. When your container is half full, off-load your stash to a home container for safe keeping. You don't want people thinking you have collected enough - as we can never collect enough can tabs for the kids.
Turning them in is easy too. Whenever you see a Thirsty Lizard, just hand them your collection of can tabs. Click here for where you can find us.
| Some good places to collect can tabs |
- home
- work
- schools
- dormitories
- camp
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- restaurants
- bars
- liquor stores
- grocery stores
- can redemption centers
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- social clubs
- business clubs
- community clubs
- town pools
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- picnics
- sporting events
- BBQs
- parties
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Let us know how you are doing.
We'd love to know what you are up to and where you are collecting tabs and how you are doing. Email us and don't forget to send us photos so we can post them on our web site. If you would like to be listed as an official Thirsty Lizard drop off location, then let us know that too.
Thanks for helping us to help the kids.
Shriners Hospitals for Children in Springfield and Boston have been collecting pull-tabs or “pop-tops” from beverage cans since 1989, recycling them, and putting the money toward programs that directly benefit children. Since its inception, about a half-million pounds of aluminum tabs have been collected and recycled.
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