we called them lucky tabs. when you got lucky you would give the tab to your partner of the night, they could then put it on a necklace or bracelet or simply just collect them.
Also, people collect them for goods. There are people who make jewelry, purses, even clothing out of them. That is where the money market is. They will pay more than a recycle center when purchasing tabs for making goods.
I collect them cos they can make cool chains ;w; I have a jewelry box full of them they are useful for makeing accessories like trouser chains and chokers and the also make cool earing tbh-
That’s what I wanna do with them :o I had a rlly cool idea to make tab chain bracelets and paint them into my flags (trans, gay and asexual) to go with my alt outfits
I always collect these ,and I still do collect them just because I wanted to ,but I didn’t know that I could actually ship them in and get some cash from them so this is quite useful thanks for the exclamation!!
I've used these for a few emergencies myself! They make good fish hooks, If your zipper breaks or your bra strap.. You'll be glad you have these! I've used them to hang photo frames. 😎
these are urban legends, people assume they're for cancer, but the hospital doesn't recycle. it's because you can't do anything about cancer so this project to collect is just busy work to give people, mostly children, hope; it's like praying but more proactive in the sense you feel like you're doing something
I have a crap ton of them, if I like someone I will give it to them, more as a friendship thing but it’s a way I tell people I trust them. I wear them myself as well :)
The tabs aren't lined with plastic. In recent years, all soda cans are inner lined with plastic & this makes the tab itself a "higher grade" & easier to recycle
People still collect them 4 years later. :) Reasons may be somewhat different but it still happens. Mostly craft uses and some tabs are colored now. Bubly water has tabs in several different colors with words on them. Recycling prices have improved too. About every couple months I bring my cans in for a per pound price and walk away with at least $70 in cash. That is minus the tabs as I sell those to crafters. :) - Heidi
Liked and subscribed! Excellent information! I had no idea the tabs were a higher quality aluminum than the can. My daughter started collecting the tabs as a hobby and it looked fun, so I got into it, so now our aluminum tab collection has grown to a few hundred tabs in the very short time we've been collecting!
either it would make an engineering flaw or it might actually be more expensive to do, there’s a suprising amount of engineering that went to the functional design of soda cans to get the shape they have now.
i dont know what made me start collecting them but i did and i went to a recycling center and they had a huge bin full of cans and i wanted to go though all of the cans and take their tabs. I didnt though
I make purses and wallet from poptabs. I have friends and family who donated the tabs to me. I just make them as gift for people. But you can see a lot of video on UA-cam on people making things from poptabs.
I collect pop tabs because one day I said, “I should keep them. I could use them for a craft one day.” …….I never crafted with them. I now have over 100 maybe 200 and it’s only been a few months. Our family drinks a lot of La Croix :)
let me educate you about recycling cans. a tab is 0.25grams while the whole can is 12.5 grams. this means you need 4000 tabs to get 1 kilo as against only 80 whole cans to get the same weight. so that means if you had 4000 cans to get enough tabs from to make one kilo you could have produced 50 kilos of aluminum from the whole cans? i think i'd prefer to get money from 50 kilos than one kilo i somehow doubt the supposed difference in the types of aluminium would make a difference for recyclers. they are not going to be separating them before melting. it will all go in the same smelter.
I used to collect them as a kid, and I just found them today while cleaning out storage. I have a regular plastic grocery bag about 3/4 of the way full of them. Not sure how many there are... I would say a few thousand if I had to guess.
Another reason is the cans have paint on the outside and varnish on the inside so it recycles as #2 aluminum. The tabs have neither of those and goes for #1 aluminum.
Yes the tabs are pure aluminum as where the cans are not they have a thin plastic lining on the inside but the tabs can also be donated to the Ronald McDonald house to help pay for housing accommodations for families with sick kids
@@sour1551 yeah ingots can make okay money but if you really want to make money you need to cast it into a item that has a wide audience like chess pieces for example.
I collect them to boost my mental health I have been struggling with Suicidal Depression I'm not sure if that's a thing but yeah I like collecting them so I can have smt fun to do btw I'm 11 1/2 I'm pretty young and the whole getting better thing is going REALLY VERY SLOW but I've have been tryna hang on a little longer to days to weeks to months and so on I have had doubts since I was abt 6 or 8 at 6 I was kinda insecure abt really small things till I learned I didn't need to fit in to be Nice and Kind, when I was 8 tho,6 through 8 I have been bullied a lot I was still nice and kind but I started getting more insecure abt myself I hate that I wasn't pretty and skinny but then it got worse, and worse, and worse, now these days I starve myself I never would believe I was pretty, I have so many problems I hate myself I hate my brothers but I don't won't to talk abt them I want the rest of my 99% to stay hidden as possible.
The tabs have the grade "bright" aluminum, meaning that there is no ink, varnish, lacquer, or epoxy. They command a higher price when scrapping which is how the Ronald McDonald charity makes money off of them. The cans are "decorated" grade and have the aforementioned extras.
@R2D2677 I work in aluminum can manufacturing, the clean aluminum that doesn't have all of the product applications gets a better scrap price than the stuff with the ink on it.
I started to collect them because I want sickle cell research to be included for that I'm going to send them to the American sickle cell disease association but I do have enough that should be only after about a million.
I started collecting tabs because i wanna see how many I can get...a kind of hobby i suppose....then maybe make some art or some interesting somethings...
Aluminum comes in all different strengths and quality the tops are better quality my crutches are aluminum and those can hold up like 350 pounds walking on them
3:05 to 3:15 "This can I have here is Orange-Vanilla-Coke, Zero Sugar," Delicious. That what it says in the comments but it sounds like he is really saying "B*LL SH*T" softly under his breath...
I feel like this video should be part of a series or something. It started to go somewhere and then it just stopped. No explanation of why people collect the tabs, just some guesstimations.
"I stepped on a pop top blew out my flip flop and had to cruise on back home." Most of what you reported here is bogus. The whole program is bogus. The top is the same aluminum as the can, and I forbid anyone to make extra effort to screw with the pop tops. Especially if you make any extra effort to make a trip anywhere to transport tops. All they do with these things is collect them for scrap aluminum value... maybe 40 to 60 cents per pound. Do EVERYONE a favor and donate 50 cents or a dollar (or 5 dollars) to the charity and they will come out LIGHTYEARS ahead, and the environment wont suffer from transporting tops!!! Just always recycle the entire can and then give a buck when you can. The entire can is infinitely recyclable. I'm pissed at myself for spending time researching this stuff and pissed that my parents ask me for tabs (and even more pissed that I started saving them), and totally feel bad for anyone wasting their time searching for tabs. The freaking things are worth literally like 50 cents per thousand or so. The entire can is worth about 50 cents per 30-50 of them (depending on where you are).
The tabs are just aluminum, the cans themselves are thin aluminum with a plastic film and paint. So melting the tabs are better because they wont have impurities like the plastic and paint.
This is just a goofy thing to make people feel like they are being altruistic, when really it's a silly waste of time. It takes about 30 whole cans to make a pound, and over 1000 tabs, and no they aren't worth anymore as scrap aluminum. Maybe with a massive amount the tabs would be worth a few pennies more per pound, but not much. Spending an hour volunteering for a charity would be worth astronomically more to doing actual charity, than spending an hour picking of soda tabs. Fantastic way of teaching people do fake gestures instead of actually helping anyone
The whole tab thing is pure BS. It's wordplay for the purpose of 'awareness' of the cause. I've followed the trail and yes, it does buy (fill in your favorite disease) medical treatment. But the money is not there, just awareness. A tab is one quarter of a gram. Times 4 for one gram then times 28 for one ounce then times 16 for one lb and that's almost 1,800 tabs for 1 lb of aluminum. Going rate of $1.13 per lb. That's a lot of beer or soda, both of which should not be overly consumed. The tabs and cans are the same aluminum. One can is worth perhaps 1.5 of a penny so recycling cans pays more. The only true advantage is the double dipping that occurs in US states that have deposit bottles and cans. Returning the empty can (tab or not) still gives you back the nickel or dime you pre-paid as a deposit. That's worth way more than recycling. In those states, you get the deposit back AND some charity gets their $0.0006 per tab. Otherwise, it's a lying scam told to children under the premise of real money when it's just 'awareness'. The paint and plastic inner coating of a can quickly disintegrates when everything is smelted. Relegate to an art-form or hobby. Not worth real money.
we called them lucky tabs. when you got lucky you would give the tab to your partner of the night, they could then put it on a necklace or bracelet or simply just collect them.
ie. a sex tab? :o)
@@webgpu yes
I have 22
yess!!
So It basically counts your body count.... 🤣
Wow, this quarantine stuff is really going to my head. I watched the whole video and actually found it interesting;)
Quarantine is doing weird stuff to us all! Welcome!
It’s because you might have learned something new, lol.
Also, people collect them for goods. There are people who make jewelry, purses, even clothing out of them. That is where the money market is. They will pay more than a recycle center when purchasing tabs for making goods.
I was shocked today to find out people will buy these en masse on eBay.
I collect them cos they can make cool chains ;w; I have a jewelry box full of them they are useful for makeing accessories like trouser chains and chokers and the also make cool earing tbh-
That’s what I wanna do with them :o
I had a rlly cool idea to make tab chain bracelets and paint them into my flags (trans, gay and asexual) to go with my alt outfits
I always collect these ,and I still do collect them just because I wanted to ,but I didn’t know that I could actually ship them in and get some cash from them so this is quite useful thanks for the exclamation!!
Your shipping costs would be more than the value of the metal.
@@ltsmeet my whole life is a lie…….
Pull tabs lasted into the 80's, at least in Texas. We didn't get stay tabs until the 80's. All beer and soda had pull tabs.
I've used these for a few emergencies myself! They make good fish hooks, If your zipper breaks or your bra strap.. You'll be glad you have these! I've used them to hang photo frames. 😎
these are urban legends, people assume they're for cancer, but the hospital doesn't recycle. it's because you can't do anything about cancer so this project to collect is just busy work to give people, mostly children, hope; it's like praying but more proactive in the sense you feel like you're doing something
I have a crap ton of them, if I like someone I will give it to them, more as a friendship thing but it’s a way I tell people I trust them. I wear them myself as well :)
The tabs aren't lined with plastic. In recent years, all soda cans are inner lined with plastic & this makes the tab itself a "higher grade" & easier to recycle
Nope
actually if i take the tab off with the middle part still there to someone they owe u a kiss so im collecting some lol
Yes this it the comment I was looking for
No I think its if its two empy holes its a hug, without the middle part its a kiss and with it’s something sexual
People still collect them 4 years later. :) Reasons may be somewhat different but it still happens. Mostly craft uses and some tabs are colored now. Bubly water has tabs in several different colors with words on them. Recycling prices have improved too. About every couple months I bring my cans in for a per pound price and walk away with at least $70 in cash. That is minus the tabs as I sell those to crafters. :) - Heidi
I always wondered why we didn’t do the whole can. Thanks for the info. I know these were collected for wheel chairs.
Liked and subscribed! Excellent information! I had no idea the tabs were a higher quality aluminum than the can. My daughter started collecting the tabs as a hobby and it looked fun, so I got into it, so now our aluminum tab collection has grown to a few hundred tabs in the very short time we've been collecting!
the tabs are way more sanitary to collect than empty cans.
Surprised no one has come up with an embossed can that is paint free to help recycling and the environment as well as reduced costs. Peace
@rhett that is an amazing idea!!! You should totally go to coke or others and tell them your idea!!!
either it would make an engineering flaw or it might actually be more expensive to do, there’s a suprising amount of engineering that went to the functional design of soda cans to get the shape they have now.
@@witchypoo13 i think they would have problems with that, most companies have logos and signature colours
Thank you
If i had to explain why I collect them in a word: shiny
im collecting them to make chainmail armor
i collect them and keep em on a saftey pin on my jacket because they make a cute jingly noise :)
thats creative actually!
@@yeah2472 ikr :o
I’ve only just started collecting and I have 3 :)
Tabs are better grade of aluminum, then a can is.. short and to the point..
i dont know what made me start collecting them but i did and i went to a recycling center and they had a huge bin full of cans and i wanted to go though all of the cans and take their tabs. I didnt though
You should have 🤣
My new idea take the can lids use these as bass lures or tie to fishing line
I make purses and wallet from poptabs. I have friends and family who donated the tabs to me. I just make them as gift for people. But you can see a lot of video on UA-cam on people making things from poptabs.
I collect pop tabs because one day I said, “I should keep them. I could use them for a craft one day.” …….I never crafted with them. I now have over 100 maybe 200 and it’s only been a few months. Our family drinks a lot of La Croix :)
let me educate you about recycling cans. a tab is 0.25grams while the whole can is 12.5 grams. this means you need 4000 tabs to get 1 kilo as against only 80 whole cans to get the same weight. so that means if you had 4000 cans to get enough tabs from to make one kilo you could have produced 50 kilos of aluminum from the whole cans? i think i'd prefer to get money from 50 kilos than one kilo i somehow doubt the supposed difference in the types of aluminium would make a difference for recyclers. they are not going to be separating them before melting. it will all go in the same smelter.
I used to collect them as a kid, and I just found them today while cleaning out storage. I have a regular plastic grocery bag about 3/4 of the way full of them. Not sure how many there are... I would say a few thousand if I had to guess.
May I just… steal them
You can sell them online. People buy them to make chain mail & other stuff.
A better question is why are you drinking that chemical concoction?
I have about 35, but my daughter likes a beer lol. What do u guys intend to make with them? Looking for idea for garden 😀
Due to cottagecore or markets or art, you can make chainmail or items using the tabs (due to the strength and easiness of obtaining)
Another reason is the cans have paint on the outside and varnish on the inside so it recycles as #2 aluminum. The tabs have neither of those and goes for #1 aluminum.
I collect every single type of pop tab not just silicon pop tabs but been can pop tabs in spam can pop tabs
In Australia a 10c per can
Yes the tabs are pure aluminum as where the cans are not they have a thin plastic lining on the inside but the tabs can also be donated to the Ronald McDonald house to help pay for housing accommodations for families with sick kids
Yes but there also completely useless
Do the math before you believe any quantity of tabs can pay for anything. Pure verbal scam.
i collect them now and i have 7 of them at the moment
I collect them because they come in all different styles and colors. 🤷♀️
I collect them to craft with
I mostly been doing this for a year and plan on selling them on eBay.
I collect these and people in school I don’t even know give them to me
Your so close to 100k! Just 2k left to go :)
So close yet we still need thousands of new people.
You're*
I only keep the Bubly ones.
They make good s hooks
I started collecting them like maybe a month ago, and I think I have around 50 of them!!
I have been collecting them for a week and I’ve got 10 plan to melt them into ingots and make some money by selling them on eBay.
@@timnosgirg7017 wow your so smart, I haven’t thought of anything for do with them
@@sour1551 yeah ingots can make okay money but if you really want to make money you need to cast it into a item that has a wide audience like chess pieces for example.
@@timnosgirg7017 oh damn that’s dope
I have collected them for 1 day, I allready have 17 :D
I collect them to boost my mental health I have been struggling with Suicidal Depression I'm not sure if that's a thing but yeah I like collecting them so I can have smt fun to do btw I'm 11 1/2 I'm pretty young and the whole getting better thing is going REALLY VERY SLOW but I've have been tryna hang on a little longer to days to weeks to months and so on I have had doubts since I was abt 6 or 8 at 6 I was kinda insecure abt really small things till I learned I didn't need to fit in to be Nice and Kind, when I was 8 tho,6 through 8 I have been bullied a lot I was still nice and kind but I started getting more insecure abt myself I hate that I wasn't pretty and skinny but then it got worse, and worse, and worse, now these days I starve myself I never would believe I was pretty, I have so many problems I hate myself I hate my brothers but I don't won't to talk abt them I want the rest of my 99% to stay hidden as possible.
The tabs have the grade "bright" aluminum, meaning that there is no ink, varnish, lacquer, or epoxy. They command a higher price when scrapping which is how the Ronald McDonald charity makes money off of them. The cans are "decorated" grade and have the aforementioned extras.
@R2D2677 I work in aluminum can manufacturing, the clean aluminum that doesn't have all of the product applications gets a better scrap price than the stuff with the ink on it.
I collect pop tabs for making it for chains for my jeans
Yeah I started collecting them and putting them on my necklace lol
They had those old tabs in the 1970s.
I wanna collect them but the only cans I drink from are costa latte cans 💀 idk if they are the same
I always save my tabs for cans. I thought they were used for dyalisis. I didn't know thy had any cash value!
Apparently it contains titanium to make it stronger to open the can because aluminium on it’s own was not strong enough to stand up to opening the can
He Kermit the frog on 2x speed!
you get a nickel for every label. that makes a little ‘ cents’ to me 😂
Actually it's to put the straw in
İ collect cuz its rlly fun to collect random stuff lol
I only coleck monster tabs cauae there cool
I just collect them to make a chain
That means cutting them all open
I started to collect them because I want sickle cell research to be included for that I'm going to send them to the American sickle cell disease association but I do have enough that should be only after about a million.
Still have old style tabs in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦😎😅
I am one and my owner collects alot of them lol
D importance is 1 can count d number of drinks had at de end of d month and be surprised if BMI is up !!
I am currently at 928 out of 1,000 so far.
They used to tell us they were for making wheelchairs.
The tab dont have any paint that's why is a higher grade
To make a aluminum chainmail
I started collecting tabs because i wanna see how many I can get...a kind of hobby i suppose....then maybe make some art or some interesting somethings...
The hole in the ray tab is for a straw.
👌🔥🔥
I have a full jar maybe they can buy a wheeelchair or something...McDonald House
Aluminum comes in all different strengths and quality the tops are better quality my crutches are aluminum and those can hold up like 350 pounds walking on them
I just collect them because I like shiny things 💀💀💀💀💀
Started collecting them but energy drink tabs. I have 26 now. Its been only 4 weeks or something. Xd
Same lol
I collzct mtn dew cans
I'm making chainmail out of em
Just as Info, Google says it takes 23 tabs to get 1 penny.
Yeah, someone did some math on this. A zillion tabs won't even pay for the bandaid after receiving an injection.
Hmm. Might as well make these pop tabs into a currency. Could be possible to put some value in them.
1200 stay tabs = 50 cents. Give two quarters instead every ten years
i have 50-60
Ronald McDonald's places for parents to sleep and relax while kids are in hospital long periodsq
3:05 to 3:15 "This can I have here is Orange-Vanilla-Coke, Zero Sugar," Delicious. That what it says in the comments but it sounds like he is really saying "B*LL SH*T" softly under his breath...
I feel like this video should be part of a series or something. It started to go somewhere and then it just stopped. No explanation of why people collect the tabs, just some guesstimations.
"I stepped on a pop top blew out my flip flop and had to cruise on back home."
Most of what you reported here is bogus. The whole program is bogus. The top is the same aluminum as the can, and I forbid anyone to make extra effort to screw with the pop tops. Especially if you make any extra effort to make a trip anywhere to transport tops. All they do with these things is collect them for scrap aluminum value... maybe 40 to 60 cents per pound. Do EVERYONE a favor and donate 50 cents or a dollar (or 5 dollars) to the charity and they will come out LIGHTYEARS ahead, and the environment wont suffer from transporting tops!!! Just always recycle the entire can and then give a buck when you can.
The entire can is infinitely recyclable. I'm pissed at myself for spending time researching this stuff and pissed that my parents ask me for tabs (and even more pissed that I started saving them), and totally feel bad for anyone wasting their time searching for tabs. The freaking things are worth literally like 50 cents per thousand or so. The entire can is worth about 50 cents per 30-50 of them (depending on where you are).
The tabs are just aluminum, the cans themselves are thin aluminum with a plastic film and paint. So melting the tabs are better because they wont have impurities like the plastic and paint.
I have 18:]
03:34 start here
TMI
I got two gallons worth. How much do you think they're worth
$15
@@lemau8458 what just 15
@@nateavocado8675 Its just aluminum bro nobodys gonna want to buy 2 gallons of soda can tabs the only thing they're good for is melting down
@@lemau8458 oh
@@lemau8458 how much do you have to collect for 100 bucks ?
I collect them cus I’m alt and make necklaces aka chokers out of them
Stay tabs are meant to keep the tab attached for safety and to reduce pollution. Please leave them attached and recycle the whole can.
This is just a goofy thing to make people feel like they are being altruistic, when really it's a silly waste of time. It takes about 30 whole cans to make a pound, and over 1000 tabs, and no they aren't worth anymore as scrap aluminum. Maybe with a massive amount the tabs would be worth a few pennies more per pound, but not much. Spending an hour volunteering for a charity would be worth astronomically more to doing actual charity, than spending an hour picking of soda tabs. Fantastic way of teaching people do fake gestures instead of actually helping anyone
I find it funny that the people who get it have very little upvotes while the ones spreading these urban myths get all the love.
Well said.
I have more than 440😭
The whole tab thing is pure BS. It's wordplay for the purpose of 'awareness' of the cause. I've followed the trail and yes, it does buy (fill in your favorite disease) medical treatment. But the money is not there, just awareness. A tab is one quarter of a gram. Times 4 for one gram then times 28 for one ounce then times 16 for one lb and that's almost 1,800 tabs for 1 lb of aluminum. Going rate of $1.13 per lb. That's a lot of beer or soda, both of which should not be overly consumed. The tabs and cans are the same aluminum. One can is worth perhaps 1.5 of a penny so recycling cans pays more. The only true advantage is the double dipping that occurs in US states that have deposit bottles and cans. Returning the empty can (tab or not) still gives you back the nickel or dime you pre-paid as a deposit. That's worth way more than recycling. In those states, you get the deposit back AND some charity gets their $0.0006 per tab. Otherwise, it's a lying scam told to children under the premise of real money when it's just 'awareness'. The paint and plastic inner coating of a can quickly disintegrates when everything is smelted. Relegate to an art-form or hobby. Not worth real money.
You know thank you for letting me know about the tabs and why they are collected but you are way too wordy with the explaination
Me as someone who does this clicks on video because I wonder why I do it
DONT TAKE A HALF HOUR TO GET TO THE POINT
Took 6 minutes to convey 30 seconds worth of information.
...and misinformation at that!
🐼 you are legend ,however I strongly recommend you to stay focus on 🚗 business
What cars would u like to see?
@@petervonpanda I like the why you fix things on cars .. specially when you fixed the soft top using gloop gleu !
3,000 of them are worth about $15 figure $5 for every thousand.........u guys are rich! 😑
Way too long. Anyone interested: it's cause they can sell them for recycling. I watched it at double speed so you don't have to.