Ring Pulls For Wheelchairs Australia

Virtually any aluminium is worth collecting including old window frames showers screens industrial off cuts but the most often is the common drink can.

Ring pulls for wheelchairs australia.

My mom is on a roll. A considerable number of wheelchairs have been funded with money raised from the sale of scrap aluminium collected by supporters. After collecting these tabs who to you contact and who do you. Wheelchairs for kids a west australian volunteer run organisation builds wheelchairs for children all over the world and collects ring pulls to sell them as scrap metal and raise money for.

Any amputee is eligible. Pull tabs for wheelchairs also known as pop tabs for wheelchairs is an initiative that encourages the public to collect the ring tab on the top of any standard aluminum drink cans and exchange them for a wheelchair however there are many questions and concerns surrounding this initiative. It will only take a few seconds out of your lifetime to remove the ring pull from your can. Amputations from birth defects chronic diabetes cancer snake bite as well as land mines and.

Also there has noted events where the pull tabs for wheelchairs have fallen flat. The funds from this goes to rawcs in western australia and is then sent to thailand through reputable channels. But it could mean a lifetime of difference for a limbless person. I started collecting ring pulls in 2001 fundraising for a wheelchairs charity ms wixon said.

Savcg abn 45480440312. Collect these and you can change it for a wheelchair i started to wonder whether this is an urban myth. During 2005 and 2006 churches schools and organisations in melbourne australia collected ring pulls from aluminium cans in the mistaken belief that the pulls were made of or contained titanium. The foundation closed down but the ring pulls were still coming in to me and i didn t know what.

South australian viet nam charity group inc. 2500 ring pulls 1 kg aluminium. The riverstone children have set themselves a target of 14 kilograms of ring pulls by the end of the year. The hoax claimed that the titanium ring pulls could be melted down to make wheelchairs in australia or prosthetic limbs in some third world.

There is no reason to separate the aluminium ring pull from. Many schools wishing to support our project collect only the ring pulls and not the cans for the reasons mentioned above. Aluminium ring pulls are a part of our recycling drive but it takes about 276 000 ring pulls at about 1 per kilo to raise the 100 to build a wheelchair.