A HAMPSHIRE charity and businesses have teamed up in an attempt to collect a mountain of milk bottle tops.
The plastic caps will then be melted down and made into children’s toys and furniture and raise cash for Eastleigh-based Sophie’s Appeal.
The recycling effort will raise £50 per tonne. Already they have filled 100 sacks.
Holiday Inn hotel, health club Spirit and Sainsbury’s, in Eastleigh, have been collecting lids from staff and customers.
Schools have also been bringing in lids.
The charity, which looks after the social, emotional and educational welfare of child cancer patients and their families, was set up in memory of Sophie Barringer, pictured, who died aged just six, of kidney cancer.
Cash raised will help pay for respite care, holidays for terminally ill children and ongoing projects.
Edwina Martin, The Sophie Barringer Trust treasurer and Sophie’s godmother, is leading the appeal at the Holiday Inn hotel where she works. She said: “In these challenging economic times, finding funds to support charity can be understandably hard. This challenge costs nothing and means everyone can help raise funds to help sick children, while also doing their bit for the environment too.
“We are really very grateful for everyone’s support and welcome even more donations of lids.”
The bottle tops will be transformed by GHS Recycling.
