Ronald McDonald House Charities
Many Ronald McDonald Houses work with local recycling centers to receive money for collecting tabs from aluminum cans - including those from soda cans, vegetable and soup cans, and pet food cans.
Click here to see if a Ronald McDonald House near you participates in the Pop Tab Collection Program. If your local House does participate, it may provide cardboard collection containers in the shape of a house. These collection containers can be distributed to schools, community and civic groups and other organizations that want to help. Drop-off sites for pop tabs range in location, from the House to McDonald's restaurants, local banks and grocery stores.
If your local House does not provide cardboard collection containers and you wish to purchase them, you can contact NorthGreen Communications, Inc. at 763.478.5333 or via email at ngc@concentric.net. Small houses are sold in cases of 250 or 500. Large houses are sold in cases of 75 or individually. All prices are subject to shipping and handling charges.
Pop Tab Fun Facts
The Ronald McDonald House Pop Tab Collection Program was established in 1987 by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Ronald McDonald House community.
To date, more than 400 million pop tabs have been collected, generating more than $4 million.
The ring-pull can was invented in 1962.
The pop tab was invented by Ermal Fraze in Kettering, Ohio.
Kettering's Fraze Pavilion, a popular amphitheater in Dayton, Ohio, is named after the pop tab inventor.
Pop Tab Measurement Equivalents
1 inch = 1 pop tab
1 foot = 12 pop tabs
1 meter = 40 pop tabs
1 lb = 1,267 pop tabs
1 km = 40,000 pop tabs
1 mile = 63,360 pop tabs