Bottle Caps For Cancer Treatment

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Bottle caps for cancer treatment.

Funds raised by the charity go toward granting wishes helping parents and paying for medical treatment entirely from the donation of plastic bottle tops. Fortunately a nurse who worked for the hospital told her family about how they could collect plastic bottle caps to fund the treatments. When i asked her where she got the money she told me that she was going door to door selling bottle caps to the neighbors so we could go to disneyland. The claims in the message are untrue.

Soda bottle caps are made from a type of plastic called polypropylene. One day she walked in the house with a handful of money and bottle caps. This so broke my heart and inspired me at the same time. The origin of the hoax remains unclear but it is similar to other.

Hoax collect bottle caps for free cancer chemotherapy treatment outline. In the past an email was circulated that asked individuals to collect large numbers of bottle caps that would be redeemed for one chemotherapy treatment for a needy patient. Does anyone else know anything about this. The american cancer society.

I live in shelby north carolina. For the past six months russel s great aunt has been fighting lung cancer. Kindhearted residents of the orangeburg area have been collecting plastic bottle caps thinking they were helping to pay for chemotherapy treatments for a sick child. After extensive research the american cancer society has concluded that the plastic bottle caps for chemo program is a hoax.

My family and i have been collecting the caps for about three months now russel said. However one member of the ollu faculty and staff has found a way to help provide chemotherapy in exchange for a small item that we dispose of everyday. It s a versatile material that is valuable to recycling operations. This email claims that a large number of bottle caps some say 1 000 others 1 500 or even 10 000 can be redeemed for one chemotherapy treatment for a patient in need.

The email which began. My family has been saving plastic bottle caps a woman at church was collecting them and she said they have enough. When this chain message caught on especially in the regions of virginia and west virginia large corporations like walmart got involved in the bottle cap raising efforts. Circulating messages request people to save all types of bottle caps because the caps can be exchanged for free.

If it is for cancer treatments i am a 4 year cancer survivor and would send then where they are needed.