Run a collection point.
At your school, club, business or café. You collect the caps, we take care of the rest.
In four steps.
There are already 14 drop-off points. Every new one fills more BigBags and saves my dad trips.
Talk to us
Tell us where it is and how many people pass by. We agree on the containers and how often we come to collect.
Put up the poster
Print the poster with your place’s name and the labels for the containers. Printable poster →
Sort from day one
Three containers: plastic, metal caps and cork. A mixed BigBag can be rejected as a whole.
Let us know when it is full
Send a message and my dad comes to collect. You don’t have to take anything anywhere.
What goes in each container.
Stick this list by the containers. If in doubt, leave it out: one cap fewer beats a rejected BigBag.
Plastic
- Water and juice bottle caps
- Milk carton caps
- Shampoo and fabric softener
- Detergent
- Toothpaste
- Water-jug handles
Metal caps
- Beer caps
- Soft-drink caps
- In a bag of their own
Cork
- 100% cork stoppers
- Stoppers with a plastic top
- Stoppers with a wooden top
Not accepted
- Spray caps
- Pumps
- Plastic stoppers
- Food-container lids
- Paint lids
- Syringes
- Whole water jugs
Want to practise? Play the bottle-cap challenge →
At a school? Make it a game.
Schools are the points that fill up fastest. A few ideas that have worked:
- A contest between classes: who fills their container first.
- The bottle-cap challenge on the interactive whiteboard, played as a class before you start.
- A Friend of Martim diploma for every pupil who sorts well. They can put it on the friends wall.
- One pupil in charge of the containers each week.
Would you like my dad to come to the school and explain how to sort? Ask us.
our biggest problem
Got a van? We need you.
Getting the BigBags to Resialentejo in Beja is the hardest part. If you have a van or a trailer, or know a transport company that could help with one trip, talk to us.
- Destination
- Resialentejo, Beja
- Load
- BigBags of 300 to 350 kg each
- When
- when we have several BigBags
- We agree
- the day, time and loading with you
