Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

[cecropia_moth]

$0.55/lb. about one week ago in SE Wisconsin.

Jeff

[hobo finds]

Another weird alum can place in Tucson. My dad went to a place that is paying .85 a pound for un crushed or crushed from the top cans. If the cans are crushed sideways they pay .40 a pound???

[messymessy]

Another weird alum can place in Tucson. My dad went to a place that is paying .85 a pound for un crushed or crushed from the top cans. If the cans are crushed sideways they pay .40 a pound???

Bizarre. I wonder why.

[hirbonzig]

Another weird alum can place in Tucson. My dad went to a place that is paying .85 a pound for un crushed or crushed from the top cans. If the cans are crushed sideways they pay .40 a pound???

Bizarre. I wonder why.

Scrapyard owner must have a bad case of OCD. Maybe it's how the sideways cans are packed into the baler that makes the difference?? Makes no difference to me, should be all the same price.

[hobo finds]

I wonder if it is the bar code? If crushed from top down no one can see it... but crushed flat they may be able to. As stated before in the last year several new places at least 3 or 4 have started paying crazy high prices for alum cans .80 - .95 a pound. They also buy plastic bottles for prices that go as high as .40 a pound. I always thought that they were doing some kind of can / bottle scam and took them to California somehow, as Arizona is not a deposit state. But then more and more places started to pop up. Spot price of alum is .79 a pound today yet these guys always seem to be paying more than spot? When you go to one of these yards they have a stock pile of cans sitting around so then I wonder if they are just waiting for the prices to go up... Its just weird, but I don't mind getting .85 a pound for them thats like 2 and a half cents a can!

[silverflake]

$0.60/pound in Roanoke, VA yesterday

[cecropia_moth]

$0.50/lb. today in SE Wisconsin.

[hobo finds]

.85 lb today

[hobo finds]

$.80 a pound yesterday

[cwgii]

FOR once something went up... 1.00 now at one place in tucson

[MetalMan]

Does anyone out there have definitive information on how much a scrap yard is paid by the main recycling entity above them (Alcoa, Novelis, etc.)? Say a scrapper slave like me gets paid 50 cents per pound, and the aluminum spot price is 80 cents per pound, do they get around 70 cents a pound from the main recycler? I know one member here used to own a scrap yard. TIA

[cooyon]

.45 yesterday in Lebanon County, PA

[Thogey]

got .73 yesterday in prescott

[hobo finds]

$.95 a pound today

[Shazbot57]

Any insight why it's .80-.95 in Tucson but only .55 in MO?

[xippi]

Any insight why it's .80-.95 in Tucson but only .55 in MO?

+1
Good Question. its going for over spot. $.7798 a lb on Kittyco

[messymessy]

Arizona scrapyards ALWAYS pay better for cans than the Midwest. Just a guess, but they are likely being bought based on deposit refund value instead of aluminum value.

[AdamsSamoa]

fifty cents a pound in KY

[Recyclersteve]

Got 60 cents/lb. for aluminum cans in Glendale, AZ over the weekend.

[slickeast]

.50/ lb in South Carolina

[hobo finds]

Arizona scrapyards ALWAYS pay better for cans than the Midwest. Just a guess, but they are likely being bought based on deposit refund value instead of aluminum value.

Yes it has to to with the California Refund Value. Went to a new place they payed $.95 a pound but if the can was smashed somehow that you could not see the CRV stamp, then they only want to pay $.40. They buy the #1 plastic with CRV but not other #1 plastic bottles.

[MetalMan]

Arizona scrapyards ALWAYS pay better for cans than the Midwest. Just a guess, but they are likely being bought based on deposit refund value instead of aluminum value.

Yes it has to to with the California Refund Value. Went to a new place they payed $.95 a pound but if the can was smashed somehow that you could not see the CRV stamp, then they only want to pay $.40. They buy the #1 plastic with CRV but not other #1 plastic bottles.

So, you are dealing with fradulent yards that go across the border to CA to redeem their cans? I've been wondering how AZ gives prices above spot if they don't have a redemption program.

[hobo finds]

They advertise there prices in the paper and on billboards in town. Not sure how they can process all these cans or if they have a yard in California themselves in order to do this...

[TXSTARFIRE]

Got 60 cents per pound last friday in Minnesota, Twin Cities metro area.
tt

[mr18]

$1.60 in Norwalk California