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My local Freecycle group has a few people who collect them for various charities. Might be worth looking on yours.

2007-07-14 10:28:47 · answer #1 · answered by Sal*UK 7 · 0 0

By all accounts, it's not really a very effective way of raising much money. Simple arithmetic shows this:

There are companies who will pay £60 per tonne of milk bottle tops = 6000p; each top weighs 2 grams, so you need 500000 to make one tonne.

500000/6000 means that the charity makes 1p (yes, just one penny!) for every 80 tops.
The cost of storage and transport far exceeds the value of the tops. Anybody collecting the tops and taking or sending them to the charity by car has spent far more on petrol than the tops are worth; the charity would be much better off if you just gave them the money, say 25p per mile, that you were going to spend taking them there, and just throw the tops away.

I'd suggest looking at recycling ink cartridges or mobile phones via the link below.

2007-07-15 06:02:09 · answer #2 · answered by justasiam29 5 · 0 0

yes there is a charity that collects milk bottle tops for wheelchairs i think it is called scope but there is one

2007-07-14 17:35:35 · answer #3 · answered by shirley v 6 · 0 0

Sell them as diaphragms outside an abortion clinic.

2007-07-14 17:29:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 4

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