The tumbling sounds of thousands of bottle caps often sound like applause for Lynne Crawcour, who for the past 11 years have been collecting them of every shape and colour.
The Primrose resident has become a regular sight at various Benoni Lakes Lions Club events to encourage members of the community to support the Tops & Tags for Wheelchairs initiative.
“We partnered with Lynne during the Covid-19 lockdown period as a means of continuing with our work,” said Beaulieu Mare of the Lions Club.
“The Lions’ five pillars of service include health and environment therefore joining hands with the organisation came with double the benefits.”
Crawcour explained that through a partnership with Interwaste, collected tops are responsibly recycled.
“In turn, we receive a wheelchair per 500kg of plastic tops,” she said.
“Collecting these specific items is easy to do and the far-reaching impact means that we are looking after our environment as well as giving the gift of mobility to another.”
To date the organisation has successfully collected 77 500kg of tops thus, amounting to 155 wheelchairs, one of which has benefitted a resident within the Benoni Lakes Lions Club’s service area.
“We encourage members of the community, schools and social clubs to support us through this initiative,” said Beaulieu.
“What may seem like an insignificant undertaking has a huge impact on the lives of someone living with a disability or lifelimiting disease.”
Donations may be delivered to Beaulieu’s Books, Homeware and Gifts at Morehill Market, 7 Landau Street.
For more information about the project or be become involved email beaulieu@eram.co.za.
Alternatively, follow Tops and Tags for Wheelchairs on Facebook.
Creative uses for bread tags:
• Label and snap these tags on device and appliance cords to make them easily identifiable.
• Use tags to keep earphones and charging cables from getting tangled. It can also be used for hair bands, ribbons and elastics.
• These nifty pieces of plastic are great for temporarily securing fairy lights.
• Too many keys? Secure a bread tag to a key ring and label it. This will assist in finding the right key every time.
• Wrestling to find the end of your sticky tape? Put it on the end of the roll and you will never battle again.
• Need to reference tabs for a book? Secure tags with sticky tape, label and continue paging.
• Colour, bedazzle and decorate tags to create fun wine glass charms.
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