Aluminum cans

Hobo,NC · Mar 18, 2022

I started off my day hauling cans 320 lbs = $176.00... My guess it took me 10 years to save them up. I know its a waist of time but its no problem to crush are store'em and I get the fuzzy feeling.

RedMF40 · Mar 18, 2022

I like recycling metal. We recently had to rent a dumpster to clean out a family property we're selling. I diverted anything metal to the recyclers since I think it's a huge waste throwing it in the general trash.

WHere'd all the cans come from? You have a soda machine at your shop?

BTW the scrap yard where I take my scrap metal had a sign out last time--not taking any aluminum cans until further notice. Don't know why. Gerrit

Jeff NWOH · Mar 18, 2022

Nice little chunk of change..

Neighbor just took his cans in this week and got $.65.

I scrapped some aluminum wheels last week for $.98. I was pretty happy with that.

Hobo,NC · Mar 18, 2022

Just water in the shop I wish those bottles fetched good money. A good bet 50lbs came from the side of the road in front of my house. Some are mine the rest I pick up hear and about.

UncleTom · Mar 18, 2022

Here in Iowa they count,[or mis count]your cans and sort them and bag them and haul them to I dont know where. Seems like they are hauling a truckload of air.

Hobo,NC · Mar 18, 2022

I put them out front of a back bay drive over them and flatten. I have nine 55gal plastic drums I keep them in they are not a problem and not in my way.

300jk · Mar 18, 2022

We save and recycle cans and plastic bottles. They are worth
5 cents here in Ny. My buddy and his sister have a can
buiseness on the side. They go to area restaurants and bars
and collect their cans and sort them. The bar/restaurant gets
5 cents per can/ bottle and when they take them in they
receive 8 cents. So basically they make 3 cents per item.

Welding man · Mar 18, 2022

Local scrap yard won't take them if crushed. The say it is too easy to slip dirt and gravels in them to up the weight.

Crazy Horse · Mar 18, 2022

That is interesting for sure ..... Up here in Alberta, any 'drink' container (plastic water bottles, pop or beer cans, paper or plastic milk containers, etc) under a litre gets you ten cents at the 'bottle depot' where you can return them. Anything one litre or more gets you 25 cents believe it or not.

So for Hobo's pop cans, he gets $0.55 USD per pound for the aluminum scrap value. I did some web surfing. It takes about 30-35 regular (12 oz or 355 ml) pop or beer cams to make a pound of scrap aluminum so let's say he's getting $0.55 USD for 33 cans. That comes to about $0.017 USD per can, just less than two cents per can. Or appx $0.02 per can CDN considering the exchange.

One of the great things about living in Canada, you can become rich by collecting beer cans .... LOL !!! Hobo, fill up your truck and c'mon up, you'll be a rich man in no time.

showcrop · Mar 18, 2022

I recycle everything I can. Not for the money. Not for myself. For my great grandkids. My town has a very good recycling program. It is very difficult for any recycling program to be any good if the recyclables are commingled. Usually when people are telling about a recycling program that is not effective, it is due to Co-mingling.

Bob Harvey · Mar 18, 2022

Many moons ago, a pal and I went around our area and collected beer and pop cans, wine and whiskey bottles. His dad was a scrap dealer in Alberts. We also went around and gathered old batteries. We loaded a 5 ton flat-deck with our stuff and went to Alberta. We got 10 cents for cans an 25 cents for bottles. We got $6.25 for batteries. Came home with $2,300 ! A lot in them thar days (early '70's).

Vito · Mar 18, 2022

Our state has a nickel deposit on them. I take them in every
so often and split the money between my two sons.

Vito

4xMF · Mar 18, 2022

I certainly don't see it as a waste of time. I hate seeing cans in the ditches and even more in my hay field and I pick every can up that I see. All our supermarkets take cans back. We just put them in a machine and it prints a note that we can take to the counter and get our payment.

SweetFeet · Mar 18, 2022

Our county says to comingle 'em...
probably because people were anyway.

Joe(TX) · Mar 18, 2022

Cans are $.90 a pond here

Hobo,NC · Mar 18, 2022

(quoted from post at 05:43:27 03/19/22) Cans are $.90 a pond here

WHUT! I need to go get my cans back.

Local yard is a cheap place to deal with they are always the lowest price.

SVcummins · Mar 18, 2022

Id say thats a pretty decent check

Russ from MN · Mar 19, 2022

70 cents a pound here in Arizona.

MarkB_MI · Mar 19, 2022

They're worth a dime apiece in Michigan. You don't see beer cans on the side of the road here.

MarkB_MI · Mar 19, 2022

A friend of mine who is an engine block engineer told me that aluminum cans are highly desired by foundries. It seems they're drawn so thin that only virgin aluminum can be used to make cans. Recycled cans aren't pure enough to be recycled into cans, but they're excellent material for castings. Recycled aluminum from other sources tends to be contaminated with steel or (in the case of recycled wheels) lead.

Jimmydog · Mar 19, 2022

Guy that runs the corner store up the road has me trained. He gives me a couple of those huge clear plastic bags the distributors use. They have exact amounts for each bag based on the unit size. I take 25-ounce beer cans back 120 in a bag, and 12-ounce soda cans 240 per bag. Of course they have to properly sorted for which ever bottler. No Pepsi in with Coca-cola etc. Works good for both of us; I'm not constantly dragging bottles back every trip and the store doesn't lay a finger on them, just throw them around back on delivery day and truck driver picks em up.

He recently raised the price of his beer. I plan on asking him next time I see him why if the beer prices went up, how come he doesn't raise the deposit on empties? Seems reasonable to me! Heh heh.

JD

DoubleO7 · Mar 19, 2022

(quoted from post at 08:53:35 03/19/22) A friend of mine who is an engine block engineer told me that aluminum cans are highly desired by foundries. It seems they're drawn so thin that only virgin aluminum can be used to make cans. Recycled cans aren't pure enough to be recycled into cans, but they're excellent material for castings. Recycled aluminum from other sources tends to be contaminated with steel or (in the case of recycled wheels) lead.

It is true even more so for making aluminum foil.
Not only is it virgin aluminum (made with bauxite ore and the desired alloys).
In its molten state the aluminum goes thru various filters and filtering to catch impurities.
You don't want a itty bitty piece of oxide in the aluminum going anywhere near the very expensive rollers that make that thin stuff.
A damaged roller is big $$ in costs plus down time.

RayP(MI) · Mar 19, 2022

Michigan has a 10 cent deposit on them when you buy, 10 cent when you return. No profit to be had, unless you pick some
discards along the road. Roads are pretty well picked up by kids and ner-do-wells who are looking for beer/drug money.
Most larger grocery stores have self-scanner sorting machines. customer feeds them in, gets a receipt. Machine sorts
and bags for return with delivery trucks. Mom and pop stores may manually sort. Wife picked up half a bushel of cans
one spring on our roadside. turned out to be out-of-state cans, rejected by machine for no deposit. She was NOT HAPPY

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