Recycling expired energy drink

I'm working on a deal to get 27 pallets of expired energy drink. According to the dude I've been working with, these pallets have 144 cases (24 cans to a case) or 3,456 cans per pallet. Total is 93,312 cans and according to this guy, he gets about 27 cans per pound.

Thats 3,456 pounds of cans! I figure at .71 a pound it's worth $2,453.76.

I was thinking of offering the guy $1,000 for the soda since I have to empty them (I'd probaby try to build some sort of crusher for this) and haul it. Heck, it's probably even drinkable maybe I could sell some of it as is.

Have any of you ever run across something like this before? Any experiences with that many cans is appreciated.

All I can say is have fun.

Thats alot of cans to open. I thought 32.4 alum cans made a pound. But these may be 16 oz ones. A long time ago a friend of mine worked at a golf course and he brought cases and cases of old beer from a golf cart that never got emptied. We were opening these like crazy, and then I said lets mix them in full with the other cans. No way you can do that with so many cans! 1K seems like alot as he cant do much with them as is...

It is 93,312 cans!

Taste test one first and if it's ok then try to sell it to a discount grocery/scratch and dent, and if that doesn't work then get a big yard roller behind your yard tractor and a good raincoat and roll them cans out.

Yea, no way I'm actually opening them all. I figured using something to poke holes in them and then crush them.

Back when I used to get lots of cans, I used to fill gaylords with cans and take them to a abandoned parking lot in my truck (I can fit 3 gaylords in a pickup truck) and dump them out and just drive the truck over them to flatten them.

For this, I was thinking of hooking up two spiked rollers to an electric motor at the base of a hopper and just dumping them in with the whole unit over a drain. Then take what's left and do the truck trick.

$1,000 seams like a lot of money to me. These cans are of no use for this guy as is, so he is either stuck putting them in a dumpster which will cost him $300 to $500 or selling them at a really discounted price. I say start low and haggle with him, but I wouldn't go over $500 for the lot. This is just me.

Not sure I'd even offer $500. 27 pallets of cans is a lot of work.

Please keep us updated...the wheels are already turning on what I would try to do if this were my situation.

There is value in out of date products, this is a UK site that sells them and makes good money, there has got to be a US site .....

http://www.approvedfood.co.uk/

Heck, it's probably even drinkable

Yea, no way I'm actually opening them all. I figured using something to poke holes in them and then crush them.

Chug the first case, and then have at the rest of them with a pitchfork.

Im not sure, but is there laws against disposing of liquids like that? That much could get into the water supply couldnt it? If DEP got wind of it you may get into some trouble. Not sure but worth looking into.

You can probably drink them and have a lifetime supply of energy. I probably wouldn't pay much for them they need to get rid of them and you are saving them labor and disposal fees. They may have you sign a waiver that you don't sell them to anyone.

Im not sure, but is there laws against disposing of liquids like that? That much could get into the water supply couldnt it?

It's that or pee. It goes down the drain one way or the other...

its very simple...sell the old soda to a shooting range...they love them....they will sell them as targets an for something like $0.20 each or some crap....people will shake them up an shoot them down =P

Then...you or the shooting range will have all the empty cans an...you got paid to have them emptied.

93,312 cans x by 0.20 = $18.662.40 + what ever the scrap came out to.

If you have the shooters buy it by the case (12cans) at $0.20 that is $2.40 for targets..most shooting ranges will charge that for some paper targets.

That will be 7,776 of 12 can cases sold as targets. If you only sell 40 cases a week..it will take 194.4 weeks. Any shooting rage that only has 40people that come in during the avg week who buys targets...is a very small range...The range I go to has a $10 range fee with a $3.00 per paper target an you can not being your own targets for "safety reasons".

And...if you pitch this to more than one shooting range..you may have a few of them buy some cases.