Save those empty aluminium drinks cans and make some money

JerryS

Sorry for digging up an oldish thread, but I just thought I'd add that I weighed 5kg of alu drinks cans in today. The guy with the cash laughed and said "Don't spend it all at once!" - He wasn't joking either - 5kg was worth ........................... FIFTY PENCE - 50p - half a quid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I knew my local scrappy was rubbish but that is taking it a bit too far. Then again, it wasn't very good when I worked there a few years ago, but you do get some treasures when you go and pick some skips up. lol

Just to put it in perspective, we weighed a car in at a different place and got £168 for it - alot more than expected but that place doesn't recycle drinks cans.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

JerryS wrote: »

Sorry for digging up an oldish thread, but I just thought I'd add that I weighed 5kg of alu drinks cans in today. The guy with the cash laughed and said "Don't spend it all at once!" - He wasn't joking either - 5kg was worth ........................... FIFTY PENCE - 50p - half a quid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I knew my local scrappy was rubbish but that is taking it a bit too far. Then again, it wasn't very good when I worked there a few years ago, but you do get some treasures when you go and pick some skips up. lol

Just to put it in perspective, we weighed a car in at a different place and got £168 for it - alot more than expected but that place doesn't recycle drinks cans.

you have been taken for a ride.....

at the mo alu cans are £500 a ton near us ( 50p a kilo) so you should have had £2.50 unless there was steel cans in with yuor alu, then they only pay you approx £150 per ton for them ( 15p a kilo)

JerryS

Definately no steel as myself and the young 'un went through them with a large magnet. The problem is, this particular scrappy is about as good as the only other one near me that recycles and trust me, they are idiots that think everyone else is one too.

I have just looked at the reciept, and according to that, they pay £100 per ton, making it 10p per kilo.

I've got it in my head that I need to go around finding unwanted cars now lol.

millsymuttleylaugh

Just thought I'd add something here.

My dad did the whole can collecting thing, used to take a bag everytime he went out and picked up every can he saw. We saved the ones we had at home as well, we had about 12 rubble sacks full of squashed aluminium cans.

Took them to the scrap yard, they emptied out the sacks into a big container and weighed it then gave us the receipt. We got £30. It turns out they made a large reduction on the value as they were expecting use to have included steel.

So just a beware message to anyone else here thinking of doing it. Yeah its effectively money for nothing, if you put them in the recycling bin chances are the council will get the money. But before you sit there with a magnet and filter through all your cans bare in mind your scrappy may make a allowance for steel anyway.

If we'd put the steel cans in with the aluminium (which we would of if we knew they were just going to weigh them without checking) we would have got alot more money

mitch161

cans? nah what you need to do is what all savvi teenagers do, break into cars and hot wire them.. jump onto church rooftops and nick the lead.

if you find a scrap merchant that does not check the contents and just weighs them how about go into your back garden and fill the cans up with dirt and stones.. makes them weigh more. just selotape the tops of the cans so no contents come out.

even a crushed can still has room for a lil bit of stones/dirt.

now on a serious note can collecting is a money making way, but 50p for a hours worth of collecting and also another hour of crushing and magnet testing. most peoples lives are worth more then 50p for 2 hours.

go to local canel and fish for scrap bikes and trolleys.. earn more then 50p for less time.. and more beneficial to environment