How much would I get for a beer can?

[Deleted User]

Hi, if your confused, I was sitting around for hours thinking of ways to make extra cash. I then thought about trading cans and tins into a scrap yard. Does anyone know how much I would get for the average sized beer can? I know it may sound an odd idea but I thought it might get me something.

Thanks
Lewis

babyshoes

Not a lot, I shouldn't think! You will probably need sacks full of them, compressed, to even cover the fuel to get there. If there was enough money to be made from it, I am sure someone would be doing it already; after all scrap metal prices have been quite high for a while now.

Still, it might be worth checking the prices at your local scrap yard - you may find that it is worth raiding your neighbours' recycling bins (with their permission, of course) to get you started! Let us know how you get on.

bramble1

I don't think you'll make much really, as it's all done on weight, you'd need ALOT of make a decent bit of return.

We buy lots of old trailers etc when the price of scrap is low, wait for it to rise and then weigh in it. One we bought for £200 5 years ago got weighed in about 1 month ago and we got £1000 for it! But if you want to make money you really need something like that rather than cans

justjohn

About 20 years ago there was local market and a company called alcan(?) used to go there. They used to take old coke/juice cans(aluminum) collected by the public on the market. i cannot remember but i think they used too give 1-2p per can, that was 20 years ago. must be worth at least 5 pence per can now lol

[Deleted User]

Right thanks for that. I might do it, I will get in touch with the scrap yard and find out how much I would get. Thank you

SailorSam

You'll get more for it if it's still full and unopened.

Going back now maybe 10yrs when the idea of recycling was just coming to the fore, a guy started coming around all the local car parks in a van with a small crusher in it and people would take cans to 'weigh-in', he had a magnet and only took aluminium ones. Some people would turn up with binbags full others only a few and he paid 1p per can.
I think he stopped coming when the Council started their bottle banks but with the increase in the price of scrap i wonder is there a business idea there.

tru

I was down at our local scrap yard yesterday, they're paying 50p per kilo for aluminium.

I came home with a massive £14.10