They’re a tiny part of every can of drink you buy – but they can earn money for good causes.
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A bunch of teenagers in Glen Innes has been collecting ring-pulls from beer and soft-drink cans for more than two years. They then sell them for recycling at the Maclean Recycling Centre and give the money to the Lions Childhood Cancer Research Foundation.
The teenagers who go to various schools have a catering caravan which sells soft-drinks at fetes and festivals and every aluminium ring pull makes a contribution.
Carolyn McClelland from the Lions Club estimates that the kids have collected 800,000, mostly from Glen Innes. “It takes 4,000 to make a kilo and they get $1 per kilo so it’s not worth a lot of money”, she said, “but every dollar makes it worthwhile”.