Pop Tab Weights - Page 2

600K tabs for 2 grand is better than scrap price.

A tab weighs .0104 oz, according to Logan.

times 600,000 divided by 16 oz/lb gives 390lbs.

2000$ divided by 390 lbs is $5.13/lb. compared to scrap aluminum at 50 cents per lb. +/-


What I want to know is who is crazy enough to pay 5 bucks per lb for aluminum scrap!! Or what it is used for!! That many tabs will make a LOT of crafty stuff!! Ebay 600 lots of a thousand tabs for 5 bucks each?

Jon.

Originally Posted by junkfreak

???????????. Are stats really that important to you? Not directed @ you saw.

Yes because I deal in stats and numbers all the time. It's how I know the precision of everything.

Originally Posted by armstrt8

I read this thread and am still left a bit confused. What are you doing with the tabs??? Selling as scrap?? If so the container on which it came from has to be worth 3-4x as much... You stated the guy you know has 600,000 tabs and is selling for 2,000. That's .003 a tab... you need 3 of em just for a stinkin penny! Am I missing something here?

If you look back through the thread, the tabs will eventually be sold. The guy didn't price them out that way - he priced them based on what it would cost to ship that many tabs to anyone. When you're dealing with an arts and crafts object such as tabs, you're in a different set not matter what the material is.

Originally Posted by sawmilleng

600K tabs for 2 grand is better than scrap price. A tab weighs .0104 oz, according to Logan. times 600,000 divided by 16 oz/lb gives 390lbs. 2000$ divided by 390 lbs is $5.13/lb. compared to scrap aluminum at 50 cents per lb. +/- What I want to know is who is crazy enough to pay 5 bucks per lb for aluminum scrap!! Or what it is used for!! That many tabs will make a LOT of crafty stuff!! Ebay 600 lots of a thousand tabs for 5 bucks each? Jon.

That's just it - when you're dealing with an arts and crats object some will fight to get it no matter what the source material is. If in the end I save up alot or even sell enough scrap to get this guys 600k tabs, collect some more, and sell the whole thing on ebay I could end up cashing out like a bandit. Won't know till it happens.

Just imagine for a moment an LTL of can tabs :P

-Matt

Lol!! Oh well, some people don't get it.

All You Need To Know About Pop Can Pull Tabs

All you need to know about pop can recycling here!

Thanks hobo for sharing!!

I think how it all got started was that pop tabs was easy, "clean" recycling that long-lasting charities or whatever could do. No mess with drink residue, not a lot of bulk (or not a lot of wasted space at the buyer or in transport), and it didn't matter if it took a month or 6 months to fill a collection box because the folks/groups getting the money were generally always going to be around. My main non-ferrous guy used to offer a couple of cents more for pop tabs per pound. I just checked and tabs are about a third lower than straight cans.

But then the "myth" got started that pop tabs were worth a lot more than regular cans because maybe a few cases someone gave a break for charities (and wrote it off on their taxes) and everyone expected pop tabs to be high end value. Sure, then there's perhaps the crafters willing to pay a little more (and then may not) and so the pop tab craze got going. Maybe with Alum sort of taking a dump as well, the pop tab craze will be over.

But then myths die hard...