Cafe bottle tops to become hands and arms
When Michelle Blom saw that her local cafe was collecting bottle tops for a charity fundraiser, an idea popped into her head like a delicious bolt of caffeine.
The senior sales consultant from PMM Real Estate said to the Rhyme Street Cafe team, “Why not make the collection visual?”
Michelle says by putting the bottle tops on display in the cafe they can encourage customers to get behind the initiative and perhaps bring their own plastic lids in to the Eastlands or Northgate cafes to be donated.
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Rhyme Street Cafe’s plastic bottle lids collection will be donated to Envision Hands at the end of this month.
Cafe owner Darren Jarvis says his staff members were very keen to get involved after hearing Envision’s call-out to local businesses to play a part in its campaign.
“Our baristas have been madly collecting the bottle tops, and it is fantastic that PMM has joined our ambitions and assisted with containers to add to each store so that customers can drop off their bottle tops any time they visit,” he says.
After reaching its goal to collect one million bottle tops, Envision upped the ante to two million and has called on the community, schools and businesses to help reach its target.
With the assistance of Rotary and Lions, Envision aims to collect millions of pieces of plastic and recycle them into prosthetic body parts — such as legs, arms and hands — and save the plastic from ending up in landfill. This project has spread like wildfire across Australia since it was launched last year.
Michelle described the campaign as fantastic.
“It is a wonderful environmental and community initiative,” she says.
“Often people don’t know what to do with their milk, soft drink or water bottle tops, but now there is a way to dispose of them in an Earth-friendly way that will also benefit people in need.”
More details on what type of plastic Envision requires and where to donate a collection of plastic can be found at www.envision.org.au
This article from The Mercury originally appeared as “Plastic bottle tops to be turned into hands and arms for people in need”.
