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.75 TUC son this wwk.

We all know things have been crazy lately. How about this ..cans were .75, then ,.70 for a week, back .75 this week down to.65. Been a different price every time for 6 weeks.
Plastic has bounced from .40 to .30 back to .35

Here in the Midwest, the rate for cans is $0.30 per pound. To make matters even more annoying the seller must provide an ID and sign a statement that they are the owner of the cans.

Just doesn't seem worthwhile anymore. I'm not trying to make a fortune doing this, but when I leave the scrap yard with 3 bucks and change, it just seems to be absurd. My city will take them for free (along with the other recyclables), but the money gained by everyone's can contribution isn't even used to lower property tax or some other worthwhile expenditure. I tried at the end of 2019 to get a ball-park number of how much the City recovered from cans and other worthwhile recycling efforts by the citizens. I was told, "It sure wasn't much money. I don't know why people think those ******* cans are going to make any difference at all."

Not really inspiring, I'd say.

Tucson actually had some numbers about value generated by recycling. Hobo finds would know better. Our process is to haul recycled to a third party for sorting . of course I think we have the record, like 35% contamination. Which of course reduces the value ,to ,not much.

As august is about to start...I heard that there will be a shortage of aluminum ,as folks have been drinking too many cans, at home.

Tucson is still $0.75/@ one place. Others are dropping to 50, while some are at 20. Too much variation.

My scrap yard guy is NOT buying aluminum cans at any price right now. I just went there yesterday. He is buying other types of aluminum, just not cans. He has literally tons of cans sitting around. He said some of the bags weigh as much as 300# each. Sorry, but I am not comfortable saying what part of the country I live in on a public forum.

Western PA sucks for cans... .25 a pound... It is not worth it to collect them and cash them in. I still do... and still by Alcoa stock with the proceeds... but for the same amount that I used to cash in in KY and get $25 for I get like $10... And I do not think that there is an Aluminum shortage... there is an Aluminum can shortage.

I think part of it is people not wanting to touch cans that someone else touched for fear of picking up the virus. With something that has such a small surface like an aluminum can, there is a really good chance that if I pick it up to recycle it, I could be touching the exact surface area that a total stranger touched. And I don't know who that person is or their medical history. Sure, I can wear gloves or something like that, but it is a pain/inconvenience to put on the gloves and take them off a whole bunch of times to pick up 10-20 cents worth of cans. And my wife, who really isn't worried much at all about COVID, thinks touching these cans can be dangerous behavior. Since she was educated as a microbiologist, I will defer to her education on the matter over mine.

My .02.. Can or plastic..virus can only exist for a few hours. Not too worried

I work in the trash / recycling industry they say aluminium cans 2 hours plastic bottles up to 3 days....

Local area isn't accepting CRV aluminum for the time being, has been that was for months. No idea what the homeless are doing with their recyclables. Central CA here.

hobo finds wrote:I work in the trash / recycling industry they say aluminium cans 2 hours plastic bottles up to 3 days....

hobo finds wrote:I work in the trash / recycling industry they say aluminium cans 2 hours plastic bottles up to 3 days....

Wellll with all the bacteria on plastic I am surprised to have not died

33 cents in Texas. not selling.

Tucson is strange 65 for a high ,20 Lowest

All these months..still the same.stable.

cwgii wrote:

hobo finds wrote:I work in the trash / recycling industry they say aluminium cans 2 hours plastic bottles up to 3 days....

Wellll with all the bacteria on plastic I am surprised to have not died

Bump
I had to have a covid test before surgery. Tested positive for antibodies. About a month ago, I thought I had a sunburn one evening,that was the extent of my covid fever.

I think it is so much hype.most colds make me more miserable

$.50 today.

I am holding,in hopes the new year will bring an increase. Like in other metals.

6 weeks later and tumor was,dropping price.so turned in my stash

Dropped to .55.bummer

.50 here in Northern Indiana for scrap aluminum cans.

Jumped from 0.25 to 0.50 in my part of SE Wisconsin