Ok guys this is something I have been told for quite sometime but I have never believed or seen it work before… Can you take a milk gallon full of Can Tabs and get a keg of beer… I don’t know if this is just a bunch of b/s or not but alot of people I have asked have heard of it but no one knows the truth so… is this true or not? and if so how do I go about doing this? I live in NC I don’t know if that makes a difference or not I know means of recycling are different in different areas well anyways…if anyone can help or if anyone has heard of this also and doesn’t make me look like a fool please reply!!!
Thanks
This stinks of “urban legend”.
There’s a real old UL going around about saving pull tabs from cans (old ones used to come completely off by design; new ones stay). Supposedly, each one was worth a minute of dialysis if donated to a hospital.
Everybody in the aluminum business has debunked this. But just to appease the masses, they’ll take your tabs and donate the going price for recycled aluminum to kidney disease research or something such. But they hasten to note that you’ll raise more money if you use the whole can.
Seeing as your story and the UL I related are very parallel (a lot of something for very little), I’d say yours is also an urban legend.
Now, if you saved a whole lot more tabs, you could cash them in and used that money to buy another keg. But that’s a whole lot more than just a gallon jug of them.
One year at college we saved every empty beer can that showed up at our house for about four months–you kinda had to be there to know how much beer this really was. It was enough to mostly fill a thirty-gallon trash can, crushed with a can crusher, then tossed in a trash bag and driven over a few times by an F-250. Took it to the recycling place with the intention of picking up a keg on the way back.
We got fifteen bucks. It paid for the deposit on the keg. Yip-the-hell-ee.
Hehe thanks at least I know I wasn’t the only person to think that we could get something for nothing!! but that still sucks… what are we going to do with all those tabs? haha Anybody want a necklace??? woo wee ain’t that purdy! I really do appreciate you guys shining a light on the subject for me though… looks like we will have to get a keg the old fashioned way… Selling Girlscout cookies haha j/k anyways thanks again Take it easy
Welcome to SDMB SuperGwario. Your question is one you probably wouldn’t have found in our archives but possibly made a connection at Snopes. Stick with us and you’ll soon develop a highly sensitive B.S. detector.
Thanks for the welcome I look forward to many post to come and let the b.s. flow like wine… = ) The speedy answer i received was quite shocking but not what i wanted to hear lol but I knew it wasn’t true i just needed some people to back me up… thanks again