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Dumb question.
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Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:42 pmby lsujoeylsu
Do the tab on cans have any premium to the cans themselves? I was just curious b/c my company saves them and according to them every gallons worth of tabs a kid gets a cancer treatment. I don't scrap so I have no clue about any of this stuff.
Re: Dumb question.
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Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:57 pmby anarchir
That sounds like a ridiculously low number of tabs for a cancer treatment. Dont you save the tabs to donate to the Ronald McDonald House?
Re: Dumb question.
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Mon Jul 25, 2011 11:01 pmby lsujoeylsu
I just give them to my boss. I work for Brown and Root which is a huge company. Maybe we have some kind of deal with charities or something I have no idea.
Re: Dumb question.
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Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:11 pmby messymessy
lsujoeylsu wrote:Do the tab on cans have any premium to the cans themselves? I was just curious b/c my company saves them and according to them every gallons worth of tabs a kid gets a cancer treatment. I don't scrap so I have no clue about any of this stuff.
Tabs for any type of treatment is a myth. This is an urban legend that's been floating around for at least 20 years (it used to be 1000 tabs for kidney dyalisis treatment).
Even Ronald McDonald house just sells the tabs for scrap.
Re: Dumb question.
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Fri Jul 29, 2011 4:22 amby cesariojpn
messymessy wrote:Tabs for any type of treatment is a myth. This is an urban legend that's been floating around for at least 20 years (it used to be 1000 tabs for kidney dyalisis treatment).
http://onmilwaukee.com/market/articles/ ... ogram.html
Re: Dumb question.
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Fri Jul 29, 2011 7:47 pmby messymessy
Dude, that's specially marked BOTTLE CAPS. We're talking about pull tabs from beverage cans.
Re: Dumb question.
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Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:57 pmby PennyBoy
lsujoeylsu wrote:Do the tab on cans have any premium to the cans themselves? I was just curious b/c my company saves them and according to them every gallons worth of tabs a kid gets a cancer treatment. I don't scrap so I have no clue about any of this stuff.
Doubt it. I've researched this myself, to no avail. Just scrap em'!
Re: Dumb question.
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Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:24 amby aussamdad
yep, myth on the treatments, the recipient scraps them....reason is the density of the tabs is greater with less volumn than it is with cans. The ladies in my office say 'save those tabs" and I save the cans. I like the trade.
Re: Dumb question.
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Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:06 amby texcollex
My daughter was saving tabs for quite awhile. We saved up about half a gallon of them. It felt like they weighed, maybe 3 ounces. I humored her.
Re: Dumb question.
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Wed Oct 05, 2011 1:49 pmby oktyabyr
There's usually less impurities in the tabs. No colors. That kind of stuff.
Re: Dumb question.
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Wed Oct 05, 2011 2:22 pmby silversaddle1
Two weeks ago I seen the RMH bring in three gaylords full of tabs. Yep, right to the scrap yard. And you should see how many tabs are in one gaylord. It's insane!
Re: Dumb question.
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Wed Oct 05, 2011 4:32 pmby hobo finds
silversaddle1 wrote:Two weeks ago I seen the RMH bring in three gaylords full of tabs. Yep, right to the scrap yard. And you should see how many tabs are in one gaylord. It's insane!
I think it is 1267 tabs to a pound. I could'nt even guess how many would fill up a gaylord
Re: Dumb question.
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Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:23 pmby silversaddle1
It was cool as hell! Once they weighed them and dumped the gayloards, the guys were kicking the pile and it looked like silver explosions going off!
Re: Dumb question.
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Wed Oct 05, 2011 8:57 pmby cesariojpn
hobo finds wrote:silversaddle1 wrote:Two weeks ago I seen the RMH bring in three gaylords full of tabs. Yep, right to the scrap yard. And you should see how many tabs are in one gaylord. It's insane!
I think it is 1267 tabs to a pound. I could'nt even guess how many would fill up a gaylord
For those of you that have no idea what they are talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk_box