Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Whipped Cream Chargers From Starbucks.

Today I went into a Starbucks to ask for any used metal cans and the manager took me to the back room and showed me a tall plastic container of used/spent N2O canisters (about 2-300 #'s) they hold 8 grams of whipped cream when full. I googled the canisters and found out that a box of 24 weighs 1.5 pounds. She told me that I could have them but, not the container that they were in. I called the nearest scrap yard and they do not accept N2O canisters. The manager said that they used to take them to a place in Dallas but she could not remember the company. Oh, by the way that 2-300 #'s is a years worth of canisters. They go through 12 canisters a day at that location and the other Starbucks in Denton goes through twice that much in a day. My question is, Does anyone know who accepts N2O canisters in the Dallas/Fort Worth area? If no one scraps it then, who would buy the canisters to refill them to resell them? Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Whipped Cream Chargers is what they use. the canister is silver anodized steel.

Is this what you are talking about?

Wikipedia shows them as not rechargeable, but recyclable as steel. Can't be recharged for sanitation reasons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipped-cream_charger

i'd bet if you crushed them any yard would take 'em, but I understand their concern over residual gas, or the chance of someone missing a non-discharged one that could explode.

I took a few to the scrap yard and told them that it was N2O nitrous oxide and they saw that it was punchered at one end and verified that it was empty. They told me that since I was collecting them from Starbucks that I could bring them in.

How much are they paying?

I think these are co2 cartridges used to use them in a pellet gun I had as a kid.

Originally Posted by Big Tex

How much are they paying?

#2 steel (Short)@ $0.12 a Lb. I had 220 Lbs. They paid $28.60 for it. It's not much but, every penny counts.

Originally Posted by johnnybeegoods

I think these are co2 cartridges used to use them in a pellet gun I had as a kid.

I thought they were CO2 cartridges also but, They are N2O canisters. They are mostly flavored cream with a small amount of nitrous oxide inside. These were manufactured in Austria.

Yes, you are correct. They are recyclable but, not re chargeable.

They are FULL of N2O if they are the ones shown in the picture. You screw those into a whipped cream dispenser after filling the dispensor with your ingredients. The N2O is the propellent.

I used to go through a lot of those myself when I was younger and going to Grateful Dead concerts.

Hi all, the gas canisters hold 8 grams of compressed NO2. When I first started metal detecting, I found 30 of them in a sandbox, go figure!!?? Metal is metal, recycle if you can.

Originally Posted by jassiejames

I found 30 of them in a sandbox, go figure!!??

Sounds like someone was having fun with them. In case you guys don't know it, N2O is the gas that a dentist uses. It is also called laughing gas. One of the lethal weapon movies has a scene with everyone getting a bit of it after a valve breaks in the room.