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Pop Tabs

Kids Pulling for Kids

Although Pop Tabs are small and easily discarded, when the entire community bands together to collect them, they really add up!  By collecting the tabs off your beverage cans, soup cans and even pet food cans and donating them to the House, even the youngest child in your family can feel the pride in community service.

What are the Pop Tabs used for?
The Pop Tabs donated to the House are recycled at Rudy's Downtown Recycling.  Funds raised are used to offset Ronald McDonald House expenses such as laundry detergent, toilet paper and other consumables that families need on a daily basis.


Pop Tab Introduction Video


2010 Pop Tab Donors

Bring your Tabs to us or to our recycler:

Ronald McDonald House
1011 Yale Blvd NE
505-842-8960


Rudy’s Downtown Recycling
1224 2nd St. NW
505-247-4576

2011-2012 School Pop Tab Collection Contest Information

Registration is closed for our annual school pop tab collection contest.  Winners will be announced in May 2012.


2011-2012 Participating Schools (as of 12/1/11)

 

A. Montoya Elementary
Acoma Elementary
Agua Fria Elementary (Santa Fe)

Alameda Elementary

Alcalde Elementary

Armijo Elementary

Aspen Elementary (Los Alamos)

Bellhaven Elementary

Bernalillo Middle School

Chamiza Elementary

Cielo Azul Elementary

Cleveland Middle School

Daniel Fernandez Elementary

Desert Ridge Middle School

Eastern Hills Christian Academy

Edgewood Christian School

Edgewood Middle School

Governor Bent Elementary

Griegos Elementary

H.T. Jaramillo Elementary (Belen)

Hodgin Elementary

Holy Ghost Catholic School

Horizon Academy West

Hubert Humphrey Elementary

Indian Hills Elementary (Gallup)

Jimmy Carter Middle School

La Merced Elementary (Belen)

LB Johnson Middle School

La Luz Elementary

Lincoln Middle School

Los Ranchos Elementary

MacArthur Elementary

Maggie Cordova Elementary

Marie Hughes Elementary

Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary

Mesa Verde Elementary- (Farmington)

Mesilla Elementary (Las Cruces)

Mountainair Elementary

Mountain View Elementary

Moutain View Middle School

Navajo Elementary

New Mexico International School

Pajarito Elementary

Penasco Middle School - Future Educators Association

Portales Junior High

Puesta del Sol Elementary

Raymond Galbadon Elementary
Red Rock Elementary (Gallup)

Reginald F. Chavez Elementary
Santa Rosa Elementary

SY Jackson Elementary

Shepherd Lutheran School

Shining Stars Preschool

Sierra Middle School

St. Thomas Aquinas School

Star Team @ Sierra Vista Elementary

St. Therese Catholic School

Sundance Elementary

Sweeney Elementary (Santa Fe)

Taylor Middle School
Ventana Ranch Elementary

Vista Grande Elementary

Wilson Middle School

 

 

 



2010-2011 Winners
 
Elementary Level:  Aspen Elementary, Los Alamos - Ms. Tammy Moore's 3rd grade class collected 1.77 lbs per student.

  

Middle School Level:  Penasco Middle School's Future Educator's Association 7th & 8th grade students collected 5.44 lbs per student.

 

New Mexico school students in grades K-8 collected pop tabs from September 20, 2010 through April 30, 2011.  Winning schools were determined by amount of tabs collected by pounds per student.  Pop tabs collected from beverages, pet food cans and soup cans totaled to 3,197 lbs. more than tripling last year's amount of tabs collected.  $2,097.25 was raised, funds will be used to provide ill children and their families with every day things they need while staying at the Ronald McDonald House.

Thank you to all the schools across New Mexico who participated in the  2010-11 School Pop Tab Collection Contest!  


Penasco

 

2010-2011 School Pop Tab Collection Contest Winners - Middle School Level - Penasco Middle School Future Educator's Association 7th & 8th Grade.

 

 

Top 10 Schools after Aspen Elementary and Penasco Middle School are:

 

Edgewood Middle School .90 lbs per student

Horizon Academy West .50 lbs. per student

H. T. Jaramillo Elementary .40 lbs. per student

Coronado Elementary .34 lbs. per student

Mountain View Elementary .33 lbs. per student

Santa Rosa Elementary .32 lbs. per student

La Merced Elementary .23 lbs. per student

North Valley Academy .23 lbs. per student

Vista Grande Elementary .21 lbs. per student

Hodgin Elementary .20 lbs. per student

 



 
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2010-2011 School Pop Tab Collection Contest Winners - Elementary Level - Aspen Elementary, Los Alamos - Ms. Moore's 3rd Grade Class.

  

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Kat Torres, volunteer from Amy Biehl High School, visits Mrs. Brunner's first grade class at Griegos Elementary School as an ambassador of the Pop Tab Program
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Mrs. Brunner's first grade class has many pop tab collection areas in the classroom.  Monthly reminders go out in the school newsletter and school-wide announcements to encourage pop tab collection from students and parents.


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Students from the fourth grade gifted class at Horizon Academy West are collectng tabs for the 2010-2011 School Pop Tab Collection Contest.  The photo shows their efforts so far, thank you Horizon Academy West!


 
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