![]() I don't think anyone is ever going to figure out where what have come to be called "redemption rumors" first came from. Such a program has never existed through the NKF, nor have there ever been programs through the foundation allowing people to exchange any type of item (box tops, product points, etc.) for time on dialysis. Individuals and groups believe they can donate the pull tabs on aluminum cans in exchange for time on a kidney dialysis machine. The National Kidney Foundation ( NKF) says this of the dialysis rumor that has been dogging them for quite a while:Ī false rumor that has plagued the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the aluminum industry for decades has recently resurfaced, perhaps fueled by the Internet. While a handful of charitable concerns (including McDonald's Ronald McDonald House and Shriners Hospitals for Children) accept donations of can tabs, said tabs fetch such groups no more than the items' ordinary recycle value (more on that later in this article). Pull tabs have no special value that makes them redeemable for time on dialysis machines, or indeed which make them worth far in excess of their ordinary scrap metal recycle value. And a lot of really nice people end up sadly disappointed when they eventually discover all their hard work pretty much went for naught. A legend this good-hearted should be true.
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