MONTREAL – It’s not the average collectable item, but Jonah Hoppenheim has been collecting aluminium can tabs for the last five years.
He has amassed about one and a half million tabs for Mount Sinai Hospital.
“My grandmother has multiple sclerosis, so from an early age I started collecting tabs,” Hoppenheim said.
The tabs are sent to a recycling facility, where they will be sold as scrap aluminium.
Almost $1,000 worth of tabs are sitting in Jonah’s family home, ready to be shipped off.
“It will give them the money so they buy either equipment, or wheelchairs, or anything they might need,” he said.
Although it might not seem like a large amount of money for all that work, Hoppenheim is proud to have pushed his project to its furthest.
“I know that I finished this right until the end, pushed 110 per cent,” he said.
“Even if something might seem like a daunting task, you can still push through it.”
Of course, Jonah was not alone.
His whole family contributed, collecting tabs from friends, neighbours and classmates.
Not every single tab is going to the recycling facility though.
Jonah has fashioned bracelets out of the aluminium and he sells them for $10 each.
The proceeds of his bracelet sales will also be donated to the hospital and other local charities.
Jonah set up a website where he sells the bracelets and also accepts aluminium tab donations.
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