recycling cans for money

poppy_the_saving_cat

Plus you are cleaning up the neighbourhood too by doing this so good on you!! Xxx

jayjay21

If you've got the room to do so, then I really applaud you!

wondercollie

Here in Canada, collecting and returning pop cans is the norm. We pay a ten cent deposit on every can of soft drink we buy. Containers that hold more than a litre, we pay 25 cents.


Everybody does it to reclaim their deposits. I go in around every two months and get back about $25. Goes straight into the "I can't be arsed to cook tonight fund".


That's the real reason you never see a huge amount of empties lying around north America.

GreyQueen

Just been having a snoot around the interweb and the price for scrap aluminium seems to be 0.25-0.40 per kilo. Best thing would be to google your local scrappies and see what they will pay.

I have, in times long past, collected cans for scrap and it was a penny a can. I also see a few tramp-like old boys out collecting fallen cans so there must be a tiny amount of money in it.

If you're out walking anyway, and have the space to store them pending getting them sold to the scappies, why not go for it? You'd be improving the visual environment for your own enjoyment and that of other walkers.

booter

wondercollie wrote: »

Here in Canada, collecting and returning pop cans is the norm. We pay a ten cent deposit on every can of soft drink we buy. Containers that hold more than a litre, we pay 25 cents.


Everybody does it to reclaim their deposits. I go in around every two months and get back about $25. Goes straight into the "I can't be arsed to cook tonight fund".


That's the real reason you never see a huge amount of empties lying around north America.

I so wish they'd do that here in the UK. If I see just one more person throw an empty can out of their car..........:mad:

I remember way back when, you'd pay a deposit on a glass bottle of "pop". As kids, we'd scour the neighbourhood for the empty bottles to return to the shop - that was our sweetie money :rotfl:

@ Siberianski - if you've got a bit of space, go for it! At least with the weather we're having you won't get bothered by flies/wasps after the dregs!

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Back in the 1950s I can remember collecting jam-jars and when we had enough my brother and I would trundle them off to the jam factory about three miles away (Robertsons in Catford south -east London) we got 1d each for them,but they had to be Robertsons ones.After collecting our cash we would then carry on walking to 'Peter Pans Pool ' at Bellingham about another mile or so and spend our loot in there It was a small children's amusement park and you could hire a canoe or small boat and use it for 20 minutes also there was a small track where you could hire either a three wheeler bike or two wheeeler one, and ride around the track on it.
The entrance to this place was 3d and it was stamped on your hand.Very little cash was available to children in those far off days so it took lots of jam jar collecting for us to have a day out there.We never thought to save the bus fare home so always had a long walk back to Blackheath where we lived afterwards.No wonder I was such a skinny kid when I was little I walked miles everywhere :):)
lemonade bottle was also a great source of income for skinny london urchins :):) and also beer bottles if you could find any, and if you found a cider bottle it was 4d. Bearing in mind that Saturday morning pictures cost 6d it was well worth your while to scour any bomb sites or alleyways to see what you could find.I think if you have the space its a great way to save the local environment and make a few bob as well I'm sure there was a bit on TV a little while ago about a couple in Hampshire that helped to pay for their honeymoom with scrap metal cans they had salvaged.Its win-win really you get some loot and the area gets tidied up

torbrex

First priority would be to rig up a can crusher of some kind, this will cut down on the space required for storage and also help with eventual transportation.

Siberianski

Sorry too sound a time waster but i have knocked it on the head

I contacted 3-4 local recycling places re selling the cans and the prices were all per tonne. With a minimum drop off amount of 250kg they were price wise from 100quid per tonne too the highest been 225 per tonne. Pretty poor really i spent a week collecting cans and weighed the amount and it came too about 5kg and i have bloody loads of them. Collecting another 245 kg would take me months and i do not think the hassle would be worth it

It would take me absolutely ages too collect that many and it would not be worth my while.

I am still doing the tidy up the area routine ie just when i am out with the dogs pick any lose cans lying about and i throw them straight in the recycling bin when i get home.

Mattygroves2

You'll make more money looking for copper and brass than cans. Stripping electric cable back to the copper will fetch a much higher price per kilo than cans - old extension leads, cables on old electrical appliances etc.

Siberianski

yeah i know we sold a load of copper fittings and scrap bits of pipe etc for my brother in law who is a plumber and i was surprised at the money we got for it

It explains i suppose why the local gipsy's see fit too pull down the local railway stations powerlines on a regular basis