53kg of aluminium ring tabs collected for charity

SMK Bukit Baru, Melaka students and teachers collected 132,159 aluminium ring tabs over a year for charity.

The school’s Parents and Teachers Association chairman Ronald Gan Ying Hoe said the school was thankful that the Limbs for Life Prosthesis Centre accepted 53kg of the recycled rings, collected by teachers and students of the school.

“We were unaware that the aluminium ring tabs were no longer a material that could be used to produce affordable prosthetic limbs as the technology has evolved where a stronger metal is now used.