Food Cans - Page 2

Originally Posted by divapickers

Really???? Time IS money. Are you drinking tonight?

Not tonight. Of course time is money. I wasn't telling the OP to do it. I was saying if the shop agreed to it, which I doubt they will. How many #10 cans can a guy get into a pickup? Probably not enough to pay for the fuel to go get them.

I used to take these to my yard but the quit taking them awhile back. Too many people were bringing dirty ones. It does add up though.

I can't think of any easy/reasonable solutions. I am somewhat surprised you even got them to agree to washing them out. That's why I said if you could sweet talk them into cutting them down as well, but as you pointed out, he is running a business/paying people to work in his business.

When I worked at Wendy's, I was amazed at how much we threw out. Mostly food, but we'd go through a lot of cans too. Never occurred to me to save them, but then I wasn't a scrapper yet. Did save some racks they tossed out though.

If you're a math nerd at all I suppose you could do a dumpster cost analysis. Figure out how much he saves per dumping if he keeps the cans out. Especially if this is an area that has high landfill fees. Some of the fees I have been seeing from other members just floor me.

Although if they're on a schedule and I imagine most are, then it's probably the same whether there is one bag or 50 in the dumpster.

Not sure how one would calculate that but I know it's being done.

I heard that some yards would take them because of critters has anyone ran into that?

Forming a scrap metal route is a great idea. A scrap metal route will produce residual income that can be appreciated.

my yard will not take them because they say they drawes attack rats.

I love Andy Capp and I like to see old threads come back to life. If you had a industrial can opener like the ones in restaurants you cut the bottom of can off in about 2 sec.

Yards here take them, as for the idea that they attract rodents most stuff gets moved perty fast! And I am sure they have a few Junk Yard Cats to help with the rodents!

Just noticed the op is in Ponder. Talk about a small world. That's where i went to elementary and middle school back in the day. So long ago middle school was called junior high. Ponder Steakhouse...is it still open?

Took the wife and kids through a few years back to show them where I went to school, church, etc. The school was torn down, First Baptist Church of Justin isn't a church anymore, they moved the highway when I went to show her Northwest High (where I graduated from). Sigh. Just memories now. Of course, when I smell hot tar, it still takes me back to elementary school - it seemed they were always retarring the roof just as school started.

Sorry for going off-topic there.

When i open a food can at home I just clean it and throw it with my steel pile.

I'm sorry I'm dragging this back to the top... That being said, I'm a Mom looking for a little extra income so I've been saving all metal for a few months or so. I work in the kitchen at a preschool so I use anywhere between 4 and 8 #10 cans per day. I went to the scrap yard today (first time ever alone) and they wouldn't take them. Told me I should throw them out with my trash. I have about 60 of them in my truck bed... Anything else I could do with them? My husband does some scrapping, mostly mobile home tear downs, but this is my own project...

the key is to make them not look like cans remove the labels and smash them . or what I do remove the label cut the other end off with can opener and smash them and mix them in with my shred.

I take the labels off my steel cans, and fill them with water overnight to soak. The next day I dump the food-soaked water into my houseplants, garden, yard, on trees, whatever. Waste not, want not. :0

The cans come out clean, and there's no real effort involved.

If i had a yard tell me they had a problem with taking them, I think I'd smash them flat and put them with my other steel. Maybe run over them. I can't imagine tossing metal.

Another thought: some people buy clean steel cans for artsy projects and for kitchen/art studio decor. Large ones for gardening. The shiny metal look is very much in. I bet a garbage bag full of them on CL would sell, if not for much, then at least for something.

Ah. Bears. Say no more.