The Bays Hospital nurse Belinda Finn, recently delivered 26.5kg of plastic bread tags to Adelaide, to fund the donation of wheelchairs to disadvantaged people in South Africa.
Belinda, who was responsible for making The Bays an official Aussie Bread Tags for Wheelchairs collection site in March 2022, said The Bays had collected 71,500 bread tags for recycling in just 18 months, with the help of the Mornington Peninsula community.
Belinda also picked up another 9 boxes of tags from a collector in Ballarat on her way to Adelaide.
Aussie Bread Tags for Wheelchairs is a charity that collects plastic bread tags, sells them to a South Australian recycler, and uses the funds raised to purchase wheelchairs for disadvantaged people in South Africa.
It takes 200kg of bread tags to fund a wheelchair, and so far 85 wheelchairs have been donated since the charity began.
Belinda and her children painstakingly and patiently sorted the bread tags by colour.
Local community members are encouraged to continue dropping off their plastic bread tags (no cardboard please) to The Bays Hospital to support this important cause.