Here’s How it Works
- Find a can.
Find a can that opens with a tab. It might be pop, juice, cat food, olives or any other can of your choice. Unfortunately, we can’t use plastic bread tabs.
- Remove the tab.
Remove the tab by bending it back and forth or twisting it a little.
- Fill a container.
Put the tab into a container of your choice. We like cardboard boxes, paper bags and envelopes best.
- Drop off the tabs.
Once your container is full, bring it to a drop-off location.
Drop-off locations:
Toronto:
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- The cafeteria at Sick Kids
The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
Talk to the cafeteria staff at the cash registers to drop off at the cafeteria office.
Do not try to use the information desk.
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- Variety Village
3701 Danforth Avenue, Scarborough, Ontario
Newfoundland or Labrador:
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- Any United Church will take them.
Other areas in Canada:
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- Please contact us for other drop-off locations in Canada or to make other arrangements.
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- You may also collect the tabs and take them to your nearest metal recycler to sell for cash. A cheque made out to The Robert Hampson Tabs for Kids Fund can then be sent to:
The Robert Hampson Tabs for Kids Fund
12 Riverview Drive
Toronto, ON
M4N 3C5
- Sort the tabs.
When the tabs get to my house, we search through them and remove anything that isn’t a tab. You wouldn’t believe the things we find—plastic bread tabs, jewelry, batteries, old food (yuk!) and bottle caps. Then the tabs go into plastic boxes that are stored in my garage.
- Sell the tabs.
When we have a carload of tabs (700 pounds), we drive to a metal recycling depot. This is a place where you can sell scrap metal so that it can be melted down and used again. The tabs are put into a container to be weighed. Each pound of aluminum is worth between 65 and 93 cents per pound. We are paid for the aluminum in cash. Did you know there are about 1450 tabs in a pound?
- Buy a wheelchair.
When there is enough money it’s time to buy a wheelchair. The wheelchairs we have bought cost between $1500 and $8200.
800 pounds of tabs!
Cash for tabs!
Link to a container cover for your tabs:
Link to a poster:
Link to Easter Seals Ontario:
Home Page:
