.6 on cans , not to shabby

Everything recyclable is worth money. DON'T skip the small stuff on the hunt for the big stuff.

I believe in karma, in a sense. If "mother scrap" is being nice enough to give me cans, plastic, and bottles, why spit in her face and tell her "nah, it's cool, goin' after the big stuff".

Big stuff is nice don't get me wrong. Just saying that having an extra bin or 2 doesn't hurt. It's all money.

i have a love /it hate it relationship with cans when i first started i bought rubber maid totes and went to local bars and pizzerias i bought the bags they left them out for me every night

IT TOOK FOREVER to turn a profit on my investment oin the flipside i did get my investment back and still to this day pick them up on my route

I like to collect soda cans for two reasons a:There common b:There quick cash when other sources are dry

They add up nice, especially when a load of shred, copper, etc. is lighter than usual. And I know how much extra I'll get when my can bin is full since it holds 60 lbs of crushed cans. .53/lb as of today.

I prefer taking them back to the store for 10 cents each

well I see it's very easy to hit $20 a week I would like to be at around $40

i live out here in the country where only thing in town is a bar and fire station. when i go for a 2 mile walk i take a grocery plastic bag with me. out here when they are done with there beer cans out the window it go's. i walk every night and pick them up. time i get back home the bag is plum full. i take mine into the scrap yard once a year once i have a truck full. so far i think i have 6 55 gallon sacks full of aluminum cans. plus out here wait a week and the ditches replunishes its self again.

cans are 60 cents here also right now for 500+ pounds, theyre paying 55 cents for the 100-200 pound range i typically have when i haul in every other year, i crush all of mine and have 2 55 gallon drums full when i haul

Cans are an easy sorce of money. I checked my numbers and I avg. around 300+ lbs a year so thats about $160.00

im in college right now, on the border of massachusetts and new hampshire. I like to get my beer in new hampshire where i save about 5-7 per 30 pack, and i get 30 al cans which i can crush and save em. If I ever get them in mass for some unknown reason, or a friend does ill save them uncrushed and turn them in i brought my first load home today and have a little over a $1 in redeemable cans and maybe 60-90 cans crushed.

A fast drive on trash day - you could find AL that people toss to trash like pots pans - with a little work 50 lb & AL can's you'll make some ok $$

Lot's of can info here...
Can Manufacturers Institute
Alcoa: Recycling: Recycling Toolkit: How Much Can I Earn?
http://www.aluminum.org/Content/Navi...sataglance.pdf

Cans by me are up to .92 a lb at some new places! Not sure how they can pay that much! (Could be taking them to California for deposit for all I know!)

Originally Posted by AuburnEwaste

I prefer taking them back to the store for 10 cents each

Me too! I especialy like it when someone else paid the deposit.

Originally Posted by jmerritt

i live out here in the country where only thing in town is a bar and fire station. when i go for a 2 mile walk i take a grocery plastic bag with me. out here when they are done with there beer cans out the window it go's. i walk every night and pick them up. time i get back home the bag is plum full. i take mine into the scrap yard once a year once i have a truck full. so far i think i have 6 55 gallon sacks full of aluminum cans. plus out here wait a week and the ditches replunishes its self again.

That's actually really scary. There must be a lot of drunks driving around there.