I just got paid $____ per pound for aluminum cans! - Page 8

.35 a lb. here in Montana, up from .25 a lb. over the winter.
But it's hornet season now so .35 a pound sounds good to me!

Well is seems that most of the places that were paying sky high rates have gotten together and are price fixing. Everyone now paying $.55 - $.65 for cans and $.25 - $.30 for #1 plastic depending on how many pounds you have. I cant get to mad at the setting of prices as it is either harder for them to get rid of there cans or they don't want too much attention when paying way more than normal scrap yard prices. One yard I go to, a normal scrap yard pays more for cans as a way to get people to come to the yard. But now that the fly by night places are dropping there prices I am sure he will follow. Saving my cans till I have 100 pounds or more and the plastic 50 pounds or more and try to get the best price for them as they are crushed...

Cans have been .40 here in pa

0.44/lb

Originally Posted by hobo finds

Well is seems that most of the places that were paying sky high rates have gotten together and are price fixing. Everyone now paying $.55 - $.65 for cans and $.25 - $.30 for #1 plastic depending on how many pounds you have. I cant get to mad at the setting of prices as it is either harder for them to get rid of there cans or they don't want too much attention when paying way more than normal scrap yard prices. One yard I go to, a normal scrap yard pays more for cans as a way to get people to come to the yard. But now that the fly by night places are dropping there prices I am sure he will follow. Saving my cans till I have 100 pounds or more and the plastic 50 pounds or more and try to get the best price for them as they are crushed...

too many of them got caught sneaking the cans into CA. you are still getting paid too much. your top price is real close to the secondary refiner price with shipping. is there a refiner in Tucson??? if not it is people abusing CRV

V/r HT1

I's 30 cents for cans out here probably better price with more weight.
Got 37 cents for aluminum 6063 extruded the old patio door not much fun deglazing 7' sheets of glass.

Local yard is doing $.22/# for sheet.

Originally Posted by Breakage

Local yard is doing $.22/# for sheet.

Detail: VT is a Bottle Bill state and aluminum can/foil recycling is legally mandated (Act 148). Practically no can ever reaches the yards before a redemption center or recycling bin. Our yard pays out in sheet, though I have been offered slightly better pricing if I wanted to bring cans, only. I just don't have the volume for it.

.35 for cans + .05 coupon so ended up at .40/lb wow..........

Yesterday was paid $2.02 per pound, so up a penny!

Originally Posted by bigburtchino

Yesterday was paid $2.02 per pound, so up a penny!

$2.02....what kind of deposit do you guys have out there?

Originally Posted by andyheim

$2.02....what kind of deposit do you guys have out there?

That is CRV, you see why people are trying to slip out of state can into California, californai taxpayers are subsidizing recycling. nothing wrong with the system as long as you can close the loop which is impossible, if we went nation wide with a CRV type program, china would try to sneak can in

V/r HT1

P.S. California just cannot figure out supply and demand all the way back to the 80's they tried stupid economic crap check this out Quit California? Don't Bet on It : Insurers Said the Same to Florida Rollback, but They Stayed - latimes
and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califo...Sweeney_2002-6

We pay $0.05 for each CRV beverage container that is under 24 ounce. For containers over 24 ounces we pay $0.10, this is at point of sale for all retail purchases. We also pay a sales tax on the CRV fee's, that is 7.5% on the total of all CRV containers (6.25% state and 1.25% local sales tax). So a six pack of your favorit beer will cost you $0.30 for the CRV and $0.02 sales tax. That's $0.32 additional cost added to every six pack. We pay to play in Calif.

I got 42 cents a pound for Al cans on Thursday here, been fairly constant for a while. Some other stuff was 35 cents a lb. for clean aluminum and $1.58 for #2 Cu, mostly tv yoke wire...

Originally Posted by bigburtchino

We pay $0.05 for each CRV beverage container that is under 24 ounce. For containers over 24 ounces we pay $0.10, this is at point of sale for all retail purchases. We also pay a sales tax on the CRV fee's, that is 7.5% on the total of all CRV containers (6.25% state and 1.25% local sales tax). So a six pack of your favorit beer will cost you $0.30 for the CRV and $0.02 sales tax. That's $0.32 additional cost added to every six pack. We pay to play in Calif.

Tax on the deposit blows!

$.48 / lb for cans, $.40/lb for cast and extruded

In Central Mesa Az it's a buck a pound for cans. The place we sell to pays a dime a pound more if they are smashed.

Well, here is my haul today. Looks like 41 cents a lb.