Save those empty aluminium drinks cans and make some money

meerustar

If you have an automatic recycling bin at your local Tesco, you get 1 point per 2 cans recycled ... which converted to deal price is 3p

Every little helps, lol

davester

Thats a good idea for the Teens that say I got nufin to do, thats why i go out on the rob. Go collect the cans and earn some money.

MX5huggy

Mrs_Money wrote: »

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?

Just as recyclable but not worth so much Alu cans are £800 a tonne Steel £150. http://www.letsrecycle.com/prices/metals/

Yorkielass

I did this about 5 years ago, worked on a summer school and the kids drank so many cans that week and there was no recycling where we were so I took them home and stashed them in the shed and ended up taking them to a local scrap metal place, found it on the internet - I think I got about £5 so probably not worth a special trip for petrol these days, but if you get through them/find them whilst out and about and have space to store I agree it's an easy way of making a few extra pounds.

Mrs_Money

debtbegone wrote: »

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

Does anyone know if scrap dealers have a minimum quantity they will accept? I could store a sackfull of flattened drinks cans about the size of a big compost sack - but I don't really have the room for any more than that!

PasturesNew

My nearest scrappie for recycling is a 40 mile round trip, so it's not looking like a good deal.

countingthepennies

Would a scrap dealer take all of the metal that I put into the recycling box? I only ask because someone went through my recycling bin this morning and took all the tins, hairspray cans etc. Bit cheeky of them, but it got me thinking that there must be money in it, and it may as well go into my pocket as theirs!

spadoosh

There was a thread a while back about a lady who wanted to collect enough cans to sell and make enough money to pay off her debts. I had a quick look over the maths and she need the equvilent weight of a boeing 737. I cant remember the exact figures but i think her debt was 70k.

And i tihnk she was aiming for about £1000 per tonne of aluminium but looks like you can get about £2000 per tonne now. Please bear in mind a tonne in crushed cans would probably completely fill your front room.

Not very practical to make money from unless you have 30 million households collecting and sorting it for you

antrobus

You can find some information on current scrap metal prices at http://www.letsrecycle.com/prices/metals

The current price for aluminium cans might be about £1,000 per tonne, but that's for 'densified and strapped' bales of cans delivered to the actual processor. A scrap metal merchant will pay you a lot less, as he's the one that'll be doing the densifying, strapping, and delivery.

I must admit I once had a look at whether it was worthwhile stockpiling aluminium cans and taking them to the nearest scrap metal dealers. I concluded that the likely value of one car load of squashed cans would only just about cover the cost of the petrol for the trip to the dealers, and so decided it wasn't worth the effort.

liam8282

I can remember my school doing this sort of thing for charity.

It didn't last very long as it cost more in petrol to take the cans to the dealers.