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Got 2.10 a lb in cali

thanks for the info cwgii! The Recyco on the East side said they will no longer add match (+ 1 cent) as they were losing money on the 2 ads that were .80 a pound...

$.52 a lb today in NW GA.

between .45 and .55 lb in Houston.

.80 lb in So. AZ

One year after my last post in this thread, still 0.55 in Cincinnati.

.52 LB in Salem,Or The place in Albany,OR quoted me .20 LB but I think they were reading steel price as that is a huge discrepancy and just 30 miles between them.

There's a new yard paying .75 in Prescott Valley az

In my little corner of the Midwest, cans are 63 cents per pound. I see a general upward trend for aluminum as China seems to be consuming more.

tucson has one place at .95 several at .80 and one lowball still at .55

Still 0.50 at my yard.

.55 in Lubbock, TX

.80 today in So. AZ

hobo finds wrote:.80 today in So. AZ

I know this has been discussed before but I can't remember the answer - Why such high prices for AZ cans? It appears that Arizona was not a can deposit state (see below). From my experience of watching the market, refining/recycling impure metals usually means a buy back 10-15% below the spot price to cover costs of the refiner and the middle man (Aluminum is usually about 2 times this rate because of the gouging by the middleman). So these prices in AZ don't really make sense to me without a subsidy (Al spot at $.837). My vote is that the states listed below should refrain from posting on this thread because it doesn't help to see artificial prices unless there were a legal option to cash out in that state from another non-deposit state, which isn't the case.
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States that have a can deposit regulation:

Connecticut (0.05 US$), introduced 1980
Delaware (0.05 US$), introduced 1982, abolished 2009, replaced by Universal Recycling law.
Hawaii (0.05 US$), introduced 2005
Iowa (0.05 US$, incl. wine bottles), introduced 1979
California (0.05 US$, 0.10 US$ for bottles above 24 fl oz [almost 710 ml]), introduced 1987, 25% raise in 2007
Maine (0.05 US$), introduced 1978
Massachusetts (0.05 US$), introduced 1983
Michigan (0.10 US$), introduced 1978
New York (0.05 US$), introduced 1982
Oregon (0.05 US$), introduced 1972
Vermont (0.05 US$), introduced 1973

Not sure what it is in Tucson, but 3 new yards that also buy plastic bottles are the ones with the crazy high prices. The older yards pay .55 - .62 cents. One is up to .75 just to try and keep some cans going to them. When it was just one yard I thought somehow they were taking the cans to Cali for the deposit, but now 3 different new yards are paying high prices for them....

Neckro wrote:Got 2.10 a lb in cali

MetalMan
If Neckro got $2.10 a pound for his California cans it looks like he got $1.60 for the deposit (34 x .05) and .40 for the pound of alum cans

$0.57/lb today in SE Wisconsin

Jeff

0.55 a couple weeks ago in Birmingham. Steel was .09/lb

$0.55/lb in st. Louis yesterday.

.55 in Cincinnati. Looks like 55-57 cents is standard for states without a deposit or subsidy.

tucson is still 95cents at one place. while our steel is down to 140/ton

0.60 per pound for aluminum cans in Roanoke, VA yesterday.

0.40 lb today in Lebanon, PA

.50 a pound in Elizabethtown, KY

.85 in Tucson AZ