Getting "Rid Of" your Aluminum Cans

[ultrarunner]

No weight limit per container?

 

[Grumpycat]

The coolest way I've seen on the internet to get rid of aluminum cans was done by this guy who melted them in a kiln then poured in fire ant mounds. Filled the passages of some massive fire ant hills creating an aluminum tree.

Another guy was doing something similar but put lightning rods out in fields and somehow got lightning to dig holes he filled with molten aluminum.

 

[two_bit_score]

No weight limit per container?

It’s surprising they didn’t but I bet they did after that.

 

[beowulf]

The wife had to go to town today so she took our recycling (aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and glass bottles). Total she received was $53.08. $1.65 per lb for aluminum (had 18.6 lbs), $1.10 per lb. for the plastic bottles (had 10.1 lbs.) and 10 cents per pound for 91 lbs of glass. It won't make you rich but better than not having it. She said my share was only $9.46 because my glass beer and wine bottles were not worth much. Well, not when they are empty.

 

[Ford850]

$1.65 per lb for aluminum? :shocked: I've never seen it that high. It's at $0.35 here, and has been for months.

 

[Oaktree]

The wife had to go to town today so she took our recycling (aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and glass bottles). Total she received was $53.08. $1.65 per lb for aluminum (had 18.6 lbs), $1.10 per lb. for the plastic bottles (had 10.1 lbs.) and 10 cents per pound for 91 lbs of glass. It won't make you rich but better than not having it. She said my share was only $9.46 because my glass beer and wine bottles were not worth much.

$1.65 per lb for aluminum? :shocked: I've never seen it that high. It's at $0.35 here, and has been for months.

Were those deposit cans, and you just got the deposit back? My experiences are closer to Ford850's, low-to-mid 30s.

 

[beowulf]

Were those deposit cans, and you just got the deposit back?

No, just a garbage and trash collection business - you can take trash in there for a fee - by weight or pick up load - they do not charge anything if you are dropping off metal. And a part of their facility is set up to take aluminum cans, plastic bottles and glass bottles. We bring it in in large garbage bags, they dump those into large bins, weigh those and pay you in cash - very efficient. You have to separate the brown/green glass from clear glass though. We never make a special trip but it is on the way to town so if we are going anyway and have a stash of cans we will drop them off.

 

[user.69169]

Yes... mandatory garbage service with unpaid bill paid by city resulting in tax lien.

Yes... property can be lost for garbage non-payment to Waste Management.

20 gallon weekly curbside $60 a month.

The kicker is lid not fully closed results in additional $43 overage fee per occurence and yes... Garbage Inspectors Inspect.

But can you match NY City? Dey got gun carryin garbage police riding around making sure dat garbage stays widin de law.

Bud lives in a village here where de village picks up garbage. Truck's got a scale & recorder on it so he gets billed for each pound of trash dey take away. All his heavy trash goes back to bin outside supermarket when he shops, figures he paid once for packaging he ain't payin a second time to be rid of it.

 

[Jim Nelson]

Were those deposit cans, and you just got the deposit back? My experiences are closer to Ford850's, low-to-mid 30s.

I live in So. Cal. and about a month ago took in my accumulation of aluminum cans and got $1.65 per lb.
This includes what they call CRV [ Ca. redemption value] that you have to pay when you buy the stuff. If you don't recycle they just keep the money and throw it away on some goofy program. If you take in cans not stamped C.R.V. then the price is reduced to whatever scrap aluminum is which is closer to what you get. People I know in other parts of the country don't even bother to save the cans.

 

[aczlan]

I guess I’m old fashioned. I wouldn’t call them taking the firewood sized logs theft in that case because they were left there to be picked up and hauled off by the city. But, the people who took them did not know that for certain. They assumed that they were “free for the taking” only because they were at the curb.

They did not know for certain that those logs had not been purchased by someone who was coming to pick them up later. The pile did not have a sign or anything that indicated “Free” on it.

Again, old fashioned, but I wouldn’t get anything out of someone else’s yard unless I knew for certain it was free and there for anyone to take.

Now my wife, If she sees something by the curb on trash day, she will get it if she thinks it’s useful. That’s on trash day, by the trash can.

Around here if it's by the side of the road without a sign on it, it's free.
Gotten a lot of stuff that way, gotten rid of a lot of stuff that way too.

Aaron Z