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Bread Tags for Wheelchairs is a community program where individuals and organisations collect bread tags to be sold to plastics recycling companies (Australia’s company of choice is Transmutation, located in South Australia). There, the bread tags are repurposed into a range of products such as seedling trays, picture frames, door knobs, coat hangers and more. That’s not all though – the money earned from selling the tags is used to buy wheelchairs for people who can’t afford them. We would like to ask if all families that use bread tags to collect them and bring them to school when we come back. There will be a box located in the office for all of the bread tags. 

Just like the bread tags bottle tops can help as well. This is a simple matter of collecting the plastic bottle tops from milk, juice and cream bottles and sending them to school. These tops are sent to a company in Seaford called Envision. They break down the plastic into filament and with a 3D printer and create prosthetic limbs for children who have lost limbs due to injury, war or accidents.

The company make the prostheses free of charge and they are then distributed to Rotary who give prostheses to people in need. Next to the bread tags box located in the office a box will be there for bottle caps. 

We would love families to collect them to help save the environment, whilst helping those in need.