Save those empty aluminium drinks cans and make some money

funnyguy

I just dropped 2 rubbish bags of old alu/copper scrap metal off at scrap dealers that I had lying about and got £34 for it.
If you save all them alu. drinks cans over the year you could get quite a bit back.Just flatten them with your foot when empty and take them to scrap dealer when you want.With price of metal the cans are worth over 1p each and soon mount up.Make sure they are alu and not steel though[most coke are alu.yet pepsi are steel].You can tell if they are alu if they have a shiny base/alu symbol and do not stick to magnets.If you wanna earn even more do a bit of litter clearing as you walk the streets.

joshclem

funnyguy wrote: »

I just dropped 2 rubbish bags of old alu/copper scrap metal off at scrap dealers that I had lying about and got £34 for it.
If you save all them alu. drinks cans over the year you could get quite a bit back.Just flatten them when empty and take them to sctap dealer when you want.With price of metal the cans are worth over 1p each and soon mount up.Make sure they are alu and not steel though[most coke are alu.yet pepsi are steel].You can tell if they are alu if they have a shiny base/alu symbol and do not stick to magnets.If you wanna earn even more do a bit of litter clearing as you walk the streets.

cool idea but at 1p per can not sure its worth investing in a can crusher!

+ i would accidently put pepsi in lol

briggsbear

joshclem wrote: »

cool idea but at 1p per can not sure its worth investing in a can crusher!

+ i would accidently put pepsi in lol

prob make more than those survey sites

lincroft1710

At 1p per can you will have to have bought 100 cans just to get £1 back.

debtbegone

lincroft1710 wrote: »

At 1p per can you will have to have bought 100 cans just to get £1 back.

If you've got the space, instead of putting them out with the recycling just keep them stored. You've got no extra outgoings and it doesn't take long to squash a can and shove it in a box.

I'm doing this right now, we don't drink an awful lot of cans but whatever I get will be a bonus

[Deleted User]

I am a massive diet coke addict and I bet over the year I could easily make £100 god that shows my addiction haha.

Its just finding the local place near me that accepts them

lincroft1710

CoraHarrison wrote: »

I am a massive diet coke addict and I bet over the year I could easily make £100 god that shows my addiction haha.

I'm glad you included the word "diet" otherwise your post takes on a whole new meaning.

If you believe you could make £100 pa, that means you drink 10k cans a year, almost 30 a day!!!

veryintrigued

Totally agree with this post. We take a carrier bag out with us each evening dog walking and pick up some (by all means not all) cans we spot. Normally after 45mins we have filled a carrier bag.

Its free money and we get to help our local environment a little by being choked less from the unthoughtful members of our society.

Yes we only tend to pick up when 'no-ones watching'. But 50p a night all helps!!

We have found some Pepsi (not all) and some Carling cans aren't aluminium.

Good luck all

BAFE

Hi, can anyone tell me how to find whereabouts in my area to take these cans where i will be paid

thanks

Mrs_Money

BAFE wrote: »

Hi, can anyone tell me how to find whereabouts in my area to take these cans where i will be paid

thanks

I'm assuming you have to go to your local scrap merchants and ask if they will take them (and what they will pay).
We recycle all our metal cans - but they're mainly food tins (baked beans, tomatoes etc) does anyone know are these still as recyclable as drinks cans?

lincroft1710

veryintrigued wrote: »

Totally agree with this post. We take a carrier bag out with us each evening dog walking and pick up some (by all means not all) cans we spot. Normally after 45mins we have filled a carrier bag.

Its free money and we get to help our local environment a little by being choked less from the unthoughtful members of our society.

Yes we only tend to pick up when 'no-ones watching'. But 50p a night all helps!!

We have found some Pepsi (not all) and some Carling cans aren't aluminium.

Good luck all

You're certainly helping the environment if you can find that many discarded cans in that short time span! Well done!