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Lotta bottle
May. 26th, 2010 07:31 pmI saw a box at work. Someone's collecting milk bottle tops for charity. Apparently the money goes to buying a kid a wheelchair.
I've heard about these things before and it makes no sense.
Google tells me that type of plastic goes for £50 a tonne. A tonne of plastic bottle tops is several hundred thousand of the things. A motorised wheelchair costs £1000 or so. So that's 20 tonnes. Seems like it would be hard for any single charity to collect so many. Most sites on this scheme also suggest this is probably a hoax.
But I've been hearing about this for years. Who are these people who are collecting them? Are people really organising a collection without thinking of what the next stage is? Do they all end up going to the same person? What does that person do with them? Or is there some charity actually collecting them?
I'm just confused.
I've heard about these things before and it makes no sense.
Google tells me that type of plastic goes for £50 a tonne. A tonne of plastic bottle tops is several hundred thousand of the things. A motorised wheelchair costs £1000 or so. So that's 20 tonnes. Seems like it would be hard for any single charity to collect so many. Most sites on this scheme also suggest this is probably a hoax.
But I've been hearing about this for years. Who are these people who are collecting them? Are people really organising a collection without thinking of what the next stage is? Do they all end up going to the same person? What does that person do with them? Or is there some charity actually collecting them?
I'm just confused.
