Question regarding cans

[treasurekidd]

I've been saving aluminum cans, and have several yard bags full of them in my garage, waiting for prices to go up a bit. Does anyone else also save steel food cans? I have a few bags of those as well and was interested in wether the scrap yards will pay for those. They are all rinsed, labels removed, and crushed flat. I know they won't bring much, but I have plenty of room to store them, and since I have to go to the scrap yard anyway, it's better then just giving them to the city, right? Does anyone else save steel food cans? Thanks for the info!

 

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[Rumblebelly]

I collect/save all metal

cans here in Il. are .33 cents per pound

steel cans are .04 cents per pound

it all adds up and why throw away money. Like you said, you are going there anyway and have the space to store them.

happy hunting
Rumblebelly

 

[2Shoes]

I stomp on my cans to flatten them out and take em in with loads of shredder material.

 

[hypoman]

yep...last time I took a small barrel in I got 1.27 for them...not much but it added up with every thing else....about 112 dollars worth of other peoples trash!

 

[mlayers]

Yes I save the tin cans and pop cans. Flatten them out so they don't take up much room. Pop cans is .35 a # and scrap tin is .04 a # all adds up...Matt

 

[hyderconsulting]

Some of the scrapyards do not take steel food cans because they are a very low grade of steel often high in aluminum contamination. I've been told that the cans lower the quality of the shreddable steel they sell to scrap metal buyers on the open market. I do recycle them myself and take them to the smaller scrap yards in my area who are not as picky as the bigger yards about what they buy. Right now the situation at all the scrap yards is that they are having extreme trouble in getting any scrap in to buy and so are barely staying in business. They are suffering from two big problems compared to just one of us sellers. We are hurting from low prices while the scrap yards are hurting from low prices and low amounts of metal coming in. Regards, Chris Hyder.

 

[silvercop]

i save the drink cans but not the food cans....

 

[Lethal]

We have 3 places that take cans in the town I'm in. 2 scrap yards and the county recycling center and they all pay the same for Al. cans.
It would be nice if they accepted steel cans, I can get ahold of plenty #10 cans.

 

[sniffer]

aluminum is still around .40#, steel is .03#

 

[EDDE]

how many 12 oz cans is a pound? 16-20?

 

[Bassfish]

how many 12 oz cans is a pound? 16-20?

1 1/4 12oz cans to the pound.

 

[EDDE]

how many 12 oz cans is a pound? 16-20?

1 1/4 12oz cans to the pound.

D'OH

 

[sniffer]

I think that's a little off LOL

 

[kittywitty]

I usually average about 30 cans per pound, but it fluctuates for me between 28 and 33 cans, depending on the product.

KW

 

[EDDE]

I usually average about 30 cans per pound, but it fluctuates for me between 28 and 33 cans, depending on the product.

KW