The Pop Tab Collection Program

Starting your pop tab collection is as simple as drinking a soda...

As part of our year-long fundraising program, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Houston/Galveston, Inc.works with a local recycling center to receive money for collecting tabs from aluminum cans - including those from soda cans, vegetable and soup cans, and pet food cans.

It's easy, free...and you help a great charity
Whether you are a business, a school, a scout troop, or an individual wanting to make a difference, you can collect Pop Tabs.  Put the Pop Tabs in a plastic zip lock bag, or a cardboard collection container 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.

The Pop Tab program helps support all the areas in which Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Houston/Galveston works on to benefit children and their families throughout our local community.

 

Where do you take the Pop Tabs?

You can drop-off pop tabs at your Houston or Galveston area McDonald's restaurants.  Tell them it is for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Houston/ Galveston, Inc.

Why do we only collect the Pop Tabs and not the whole can?

Well, it's cleaner and easier to collect.  Actually the pop tab is made entirely of aluminum whereas the can is a combination of various metals. So you get more from the pop tab than the can itself.

 

Pop Tab Fun Facts

  • The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Houston/Galveston, Inc. Pop Tab Collection Program was established in 2000.
  • To date, more than 400 million pop tabs have been collected all over the country, 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

 

For more information about the RMHC of Houston/Galveston, Inc. collection program please contact us at 713-223-2788.