The taps on an aluminum cans, pulling tabs off and keeping them for recycle, are they worth more than cans?

I've heard this but it's totally false.

I've heard it's supposed to help with kidney dialysis. It's a total urban legend.

However, if your friend wants to pay you $300 for pull-tabs. You might as well make money for his gullibility.

My roommate in college collected a gallon jug full of those tabs. He could never find a place to redeem them and found out that it was a myth. Of course, we gave him crap for the rest of the year.

So saving pull tabs isn't a complete waste of time. But let's make one

thing clear: *there's nothing special about pull tabs*. You'd save yourself a

heap o' trouble and make a lot more money if you recycled the whole can. The

Reynolds and kidney foundation people have tried to get that point across with

a poster showing a red Ghost busters-type slash through a cartoon of someone

trying to detach a pull tab from a can. The headline says, "Keep Tabs on Your

Cans."

But the public hasn't gotten the message. Supposedly responsible people

-- e.g., the honchos at your school -- will organize pull tab collection drives

without even bothering to get the whole story. Urban legends expert Jan

Brunvand reports that in 1989 a Minneapolis VFW post organized a pull tab

collection drive for the local Ronald McDonald House. When Brunvand asked the

organizers why they didn't tell people to save whole cans, they lamely replied

that there were "hygiene problems" and that people liked mailing in the tabs,

even though the postage often exceeded the value of the aluminum. In other

words, it's not important to *do* good as long as people *feel* good.

Sometimes I don't think we have enough common sense in this country to fill a

teacup.

I tear them off, & donate them to a local school, which collects them. They are made of heavier aluminum, don't know about a gallon jug worth $300

You can certainly collect them and turn them in for cash. Or you can donate them to the Ronald McDonald house pretty much anywhere in the US. Whoever takes them on their behalf gives Ronald McDonald 5 cents per tab to go towards a good cause. To find out more information go to:

http://www.mcdonalds.com/rmhc/index/programs/ronal...

He says

He says ..

you believe enough to ask in food & drink..???

you must know the only answer can come from the Re- Cycle Center... Right

another fool there is only a few centers that refund the tax money,,, Scrap $$ is still higher...

As far as I am aware, they are just ordinary aluminium and by weight would be the same value as scrap per lb.

I have heard that each pull top buys a minute of dialysis for a diabetic patient at some hospitals. I don't think they are worth actual money.

http://www.artsbeercans.com/pulltabphoto.html

This website says they are not worth anything.

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

This website says pull tabs do not provide dialysis.