Aluminium cans worth 1p each

HOLsale

this is a great thread!

i've been wanting to start teaching dd (4) about civic duty. she started learning her colours by helping me sort glass at the recycling bins so this will fit right in with that sort of education

anyway, she's very concsious of rubbish and often picks things up when we're out on a walk and waits til she finds a bin to throw them away!

i think this would be a brilliant way for her to supplement her pocket money and teach her about keeping our city clean and recycling

now, i wonder where i can find child size rubber gloves!

hole_in_pocket_2

sorry if this is in the wrong section..me and OH usually recycle cans and bottles.Is it worth saving them up (alumiminum cans)and taking them to a scrap merchant to get some money back, sure i heard/read somewhere that a used aluminium can was worth nearly a penny.

amosworks

I don't know about that but a friend of mine used to be a window fitter and they used to offer "the full service" and take the old windows away when they were aluminium and recycle them and get money heh, so if any of y'all get your old aluminium framed windows replaced with double or triple glazing, don't let them window fitters steal your frames!

As for alu-cans, I would have thought that the total cost of petrol there and back and the hassle probably outweighs any money that you'd get back from payment. Probably best just to recycle for free - and feel good about doing so Is that not payment enough?

calleyw

To make any real money out of it you would need a lot of cans.

According to this website aluminium cans are fetching between £800 -£950 per ton in the trade.

A ton of flattened cans is about 50,000. But according to this website it is 40p per KG.

And 60 cans make up a Kilo.


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Calley

ladygrey_2

aluminium collecters used to take foil cases and foil bottle tops too

savvy

When I was very skint, we used to collect them up, I'd take about 2 dustbin bags full to the supermarket on the Alucan collecting days............used to get about a fiver for the lot :undecided

The Alucan site seems to be down, but they do seem to feature a lot on local council sites, so you may find a collection day under their recycling programme, then there's a little bit of info here.

squeaky

There's a thread about recycling aluminium cans that has been running on and off for a while now, so I'll add this one into it.

Prices probably vary around the place - but check your local council's website because they will have lots of recycling information for your area.

HTH

arkonite_babe

A useful link HERE

You can see if there is a cash for cans centre near you.

HTH

sevenhills

squeaky wrote: »

There's a thread about recycling aluminium cans that has been running on and off for a while now, so I'll add this one into it.

Prices probably vary around the place - but check your local council's website because they will have lots of recycling information for your area.

HTH

Any up to date information or threads?

Metal prices seem to be really high, how much per can in 2014? Perhaps more than just cans are worth weighing in, I have an old cooker in the outhouse. I hear ebay is a little hit and miss.

sevenhills

calleyw wrote: »

According to a web site aluminium cans are fetching between £800 -£950 per ton in the trade.

Calley

Looks like they have gone down in price "on today’s price they are worth £470 per tonne". That is how much my local waste trader has quoted.