Cans? Really?

For quite a few years I would spend almost half the year (on and off) in TX and I stayed at a motel. They don't have deposit like we do, but I literally could have had a full over sized trash bag of them daily had I known then what I do now. The housekeepers just threw them next to the dumpster.

So if I decide to go back I will find a yard close and just crush them and take them in while I'm down there. NO sense letting that money go to a landfill, I always get the big rooms with a kitchen so I'll have plenty of storage space in my room!! lmao!!

It is not worth it for me. There is no deposit here, I get about .45 per lb. a full truck load would barely pay for the gas to haul them to the yard.
here is my breakdown of beer cans:
http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/day-l...html#post46681

We have had deposits on beverage cans since the mid 70's in Michigan. The idea was to make it too expensive to litter. The amount of crap along the road did diminish greatly. As time has gone by the value of the dime has gone down so the law isn't as effective as it once was.

One example; a friend goes for walks in his rural area. He takes an onion bag along and picks up whatever pop/beer cans he sees along the way. He takes his wife on a trip/cruise every winter paid for with deposit returns. That is a lot of money thrown in the ditches.

Bill

My yard pays .55 a pound, and if you're over 75 lbs, they bump it another 20 cents per pound. I'll take cans, fold/crush them and throw them in a big lawn bag. I save up until I get a full van-load (anywhere from 1-3 months if I'm not particularly lucky with finding them) and that's nearly a hundred bucks. That's with no effort... if I actually try hard, go on walks down the road, look in garbage cans, I could probably do that much in 1-2 weeks (and that's still only a minimal effort). I won't necessarily hop out of my van for one pop can, but I do collect them. It's worth it to me.
My grandmother was always a can-collector... like somebody else posted, it was how she paid for a yearly vacation, and she usually did pretty nice vacations. I blame her for giving me the scraping bug!


Funny story: Last Saturday I was in line at the pay-out window at the yard, and a guy in front of me was drinking an energy drink in one of those big cans. He threw it away in the can by the door. As I left, I reached in the can and grabbed it (and another one that was in there). A guy further back in line chuckled and told me that he was going to do the same thing.

I save the cans from my house, neighbors and my dad and brothers. I'll also walk roadside for them. Money is money!

The only problem with cans is that it takes alot of time to acumulate them. I get alot of cans from home, Friends, neibhors, from work and if i see one in a parking lot walking back to the truck or while walking the dogs. They are everyware. I only bring them in when i have over 100lbs of them, about 3 times a year.

By folding down the tailgate and using a sheet of plywood hanging out the back I can fit three gaylords in a pickup. When they are crushed cans, it's worth it

I just save em till I have enough to make it worthwhile.

Steel food cans I throw in with the shread. I usually have 200 lbs of them everytime I do it.

get 5 cents each here for the return on the deposit something like $30-50 a weeks worth i find and more on game weekends

Originally Posted by fiat128

By folding down the tailgate and using a sheet of plywood hanging out the back I can fit three gaylords in a pickup. When they are crushed cans, it's worth it

I just save em till I have enough to make it worthwhile.

Steel food cans I throw in with the shread. I usually have 200 lbs of them everytime I do it.

the yards in kc will not let us put tin cans in shred, are you sure on your yards rules?

I all ways throw tin cans in with shred, been doing it for five years.