As a child I remember the whole family saving the aluminium milk bottle tops for Blue Peter appeals. I'm wondering how this ever raised any money. Was the price of aluminium huge 20 years ago compared to today? It seems to me that you would have to save hundreds of tops just to get the same amount of aluminium found in a coke can. Maybe all cans 20 years ago were steel. Even so wouldn't it have been much faster to save used aluminium baking foil than tiny bottle tops?
2006-11-07 00:57:11 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
read this, even i didnt know the answer until now...!
on this site it tells us that they collected the TIN bottle tops and meled them into ingots. they then sold the ingots to raise money to buy guide dogs. so that is that
http//:www.guidedogs.org.uk
2006-11-07 01:09:50 · answer #1 · answered by ♫ ♥green heather butterfly♥ ♫ 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm guessing jingley_carrot is under 35 as companies didn't 'donate 5%' back in those days..... Milk was delivered by loads of little companies to nearly every house in the country (pre-super-markets wholesale of milk). This made it a thing that nearly every viewer had access too and in an abundance. Milk bottles were 1pint (500ml) and an average family could end up with 4 a day. The appeals were weeks long (plus there were only 3 TV channels in those days, no computers, laptops, phones etc) so it really didn't take long to get a hoarde together. Add to that the postage was free (also only royal mail back then) and it really was down to us kids, and probably the same kids that grew up to be the bosees of the companies that donate 5% - good publicity etc etc.
Hope that helps
2015-06-18 10:59:42 · answer #2 · answered by amanda 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because milk bottles were worth money for that back then.
2006-11-07 01:11:11 · answer #3 · answered by Kmart 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think its more like the company donates 5 cents from every bottle cap they got from u. there was no real saving for them it was more like advertising, to get more ppl to buy more of their product to make them more money. In return u save all your bottle caps return them to the company and they will donate to whateva the charity was.
2006-11-07 01:20:14 · answer #4 · answered by jingly_karrot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am too intregued by this question as my mates collecting bottle tops from ordinary bottles... i wonder how collecting 500 of them can buy a buggy chair thingy for her gran...
its still happening today... so yeah...
good luck trying to get answers to this!
sorry i couldnt help tho
x
2006-11-07 01:06:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thousands.
2016-03-19 05:01:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer from greenheatherbutterfly has to be the correct one. They have even checked the guidedogs website. How can anyone rate it as being a poor answer!
2006-11-07 02:05:43 · answer #7 · answered by ribble_girl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋