The Holidays are a Perfect Opportunity to Collect Soda Pop Tabs!
With the holiday season quickly approaching, it's the perfect time to come together and make a difference. As celebrations bring more opportunities for tasty treats and festive beverages, there will be more pop-can tabs and food-can tabs to collect than ever!
If you remember, Social Justice members began collecting tabs from students on Terry Fox Day. We expanded the campaign from there and encouraged individuals to continue collecting tabs at home and bringing them into the office. If you look the next time you are in the office, you will see a container with an impressive number of tabs from those efforts. With holidays approaching, we want to remind everyone of this soda pop tab initiative and challenge you to bring in even more. Let’s fill that container!
What counts? Obviously pop cans, but also “parental beverages”. Remove the tabs before recycling. What else? Many pet food brands, soups and tuna use pull tabs. Look around, remove them from the can, and bring them in. Use physics when removing them. Wiggle the tab back and forth repeatedly and it falls off; you don’t need to use force.
The tabs will be donated to Mackenzie Health for the Robert Hampson Foundation. This is a foundation linked to the Mackenzie hospital in Richmond Hill. The Foundation recycles these tabs to fund essential mobility equipment like wheelchairs, walkers, and prosthetics for those in need.
Does it work? Absolutely. To date, the collected tabs have resulted in the purchase of 14 wheelchairs plus equipment for 20 more children. It’s such an easy item to collect, but it creates tangible differences in the lives of so many.
Let’s use this season of giving to create a positive impact in our community. Every tab brings hope to someone in need in our community.
Thank you for your support!
Land Acknowledgment
The Country Day School wishes to recognize and acknowledge the land on which the school operates. Our nearest Indigenous Nations are now the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the Chippewas of Georgina Island. The Dish with One Spoon Wampum covenant is often cited as an example of the shared responsibility for caring for these lands among the Huron-Wendat, Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples who would call these their traditional territories. CDS respects the relationship with these lands and recognizes that our connection to this land can be strengthened by our continued relationship with all First Nations, by acknowledging our shared responsibility to respect and care for the land and waters for future generations.
School Information
Junior, Middle and Senior Schools
13415 Dufferin Street, King, Ontario L7B 1K5
(905) 833-1220
communications@cds.on.ca
admissions@cds.on.ca
Founded in 1972, The Country Day School is a co-educational private school offering programs in JK-12 and located on 100 acres north of Toronto in King.
13415 Dufferin Street, King, Ontario L7B 1K5
(905) 833-1220
communications@cds.on.ca
admissions@cds.on.ca
Founded in 1972, The Country Day School is a co-educational private school offering programs in JK-12 and located on 100 acres north of Toronto in King.
