Tag: Kidney Kids

Posted on

$141 Donated to Kidney Kids

Kidney Kids is a non-profit organisation established in 1990 to support children with kidney disease and/or urinary tract disorders and their whānau nationwide. As Starship Children’s Health is the main hospital for children with chronic kidney disease, this can mean lengthy periods away from home for the child and their parent/caregiver. During this time away, Kidney Kids aims to help alleviate the stress by offering emotional and practical support to families while their child receives specialised medical treatment.

Last December, Wayne collected another trailer load of screwcaps from Anne, to which he added 3 bags of crushed Aluminium cans provided by a friend of his. These were then taken to Wellington Scrap Metals in Ngauranga Gorge and redeemed for $141 which was then donated to Kidney Kids.

So thank you everyone for bringing along your screwcaps and a special thank you to Anne for continuing to coordinate this activity.

Anne is collecting them to give to the Lions organised Kan Tabs for Kids. No food lids or beer tops, please. Save and bring them to the next monthly meeting.

Related posts

Posted on

Screw Caps For Kidney Kids

Anne Megget & Wayne Kennedy with 27 bags of wine bottle screwcaps for Kidney Kids
Anne Megget & Wayne Kennedy with 27 bags of wine bottle screwcaps for Kidney Kids

The following appeared in the Independent Herald for the last week of April.

Members of a local wine club have been collecting screw caps off wine bottles for the last year and have amassed 27 bags full.

As each bag holds approximately 1300 caps – this is a lot of wine! (Remember 2020 was not a normal year), and that is a lot of metal not going into the landfill.

Vice President Anne Megget collects the caps from members, friends and neighbours, and when her cellar is overflowing with bags Treasurer Wayne Kennedy comes around with his trailer and takes them to Wellington Scrap Metal for recycling and this year they raised $215.40.

The Cellar Club is a Wellington-based social group that focuses on learning about and appreciating wine. It has been in existence for 40 years and provides wine education and experience through monthly presentations at the Community Centre Hall in Johnsonville.

Contact can be made through the website or to Anne.

Postscript

Wayne recently provided a plastic bread bag fill with wine tops and neck labels. The latter is also aluminium and equally collectable. Being retired he decided to check out just how many bottles had been consumed. The bag weighed 556 grams and contained 167 tops and 107 neck labels. The problem was Lynne was nearby and not being a wine drinker, she asked ‘what was the likely value of the wine consumed?’, to which he replied, ‘Using an $18 average bottle cost, about $3000! But it was more than a year’s worth!’ he pleaded.
Lynne just smiled and, as she walked away, said there was a lot more wool coming.

But having done this weighing, and looking at the money raised above, he thinks the club collected close to 50,000 tops and even if we were to use a cost of $15 per bottle consumed, that’s $750,000 of wine drunk by the club, friends and neighbours.

One final point

Those neck labels on wine bottles will aluminium tops are 1.3 times heavier than the tops, so are well worth collecting. Just be very careful and work away from yourself as you attempt to remove one from the bottle.

Related posts