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If I was the food out of them and remove the labels will the scrap yards take tin cans?

I figure that I will be making several trips to the yard this year and a couple of extra pounds wouldn't hurt.

The only thing I remove is the food. I got 10.5 cents per pound for a trash can full this Friday.

Thogey wrote:The only thing I remove is the food. I got 10.5 cents per pound for a trash can full this Friday.

+1

Thanks. I have half of a 55 gallon drum already.

Cut the top and bottom out, smash flat, saves storage space. And rinse them out so they don't stink.

you were lucky at .105 here in tucson it is .095

cwgii wrote:you were lucky at .105 here in tucson it is .095

.12 here in Georgia.

The yard in Cincinnati doesn't take them anymore unless you have enough to justify going over the scales in a vehicle.

AGgressive Metal wrote:The yard in Cincinnati doesn't take them anymore unless you have enough to justify going over the scales in a vehicle.

I wonder why? Will they take them is you smashed them flat and mixed them in with other steel?

I don't plan on taking them in by themselves. Once the drum is full, I will go out back and load up some other scrap and head off the the yard.

I just add them to my light iron pile. Fill in the empty containers. The ounces add up to pounds. It's not worth the trip unless you have a few hundred pounds anyway.
Bob

I remove the labels, rinse them, put the sharp metal lid inside the can and then flatten them by first stepping on the sides and the crushing the bottom of the can to flatten it out. If you dso it right, it traps the sharp edged lid inside the can, so you can add that to the weight without anyone getting cut. I save all my tin food cans in yard waste bags alongside my aluminum cans and cash them when I have a full bag. I just haul it in with my other stuff and they give me basic steel prices. Hey, it's 10 cents per pound closer to retirement, right???

Treasurekidd wrote:I remove the labels, rinse them, put the sharp metal lid inside the can and then flatten them by first stepping on the sides and the crushing the bottom of the can to flatten it out. If you dso it right, it traps the sharp edged lid inside the can, so you can add that to the weight without anyone getting cut. I save all my tin food cans in yard waste bags alongside my aluminum cans and cash them when I have a full bag. I just haul it in with my other stuff and they give me basic steel prices. Hey, it's 10 cents per pound closer to retirement, right???

I did the same thing since the beginning of the year and tried to take them in today with another batch of stuff (see viewtopic.php?p=110299#p110299) and they said they do not take food cans. Oh well. I will continue to put them in our recycle bag for the city. I keep the aluminum from them.

mutiger

hobo finds wrote:

AGgressive Metal wrote:The yard in Cincinnati doesn't take them anymore unless you have enough to justify going over the scales in a vehicle.

I wonder why? Will they take them is you smashed them flat and mixed them in with other steel?

Yeah what I meant is they no longer take any sheet steel on the small scales where they do the copper wire and such, you have to take it to the back of the yard yourself over the vehicle scales. When I wrote that I didn't have a truck so now I save my steel ("tin") cans again.

I am working on my second 55 gallon drum. I was thinking that I should load up a bunch of junk from out back and go to the yard.

your yards take food cans? NONE in st. louis take steel food cans.

At my yard (in Quebec), no problem to get those cans accepted as shreddable iron.

I called today and they said they don't take them. Apparently it's because they say they're really bad for the environment.

"Apparently it's because they say they're really bad for the environment."

And the landfill is better ??

scrapman1077 wrote:"Apparently it's because they say they're really bad for the environment."

And the landfill is better ??

Good point . I am in liberal Washington State, though

Our yard has no problem taking steel cans. I take a 5 gallon bucket with me when I go metal detecting at ghost towns which are loaded with crushed cans that are rusting away along with the better metals. I take those rusty cans, nails, spikes etc and include them when I make a haul of tin. Doesn't sound like much but it all adds up! Of course, I separate out the non ferrous metals I did up.

Took a whole 5 lbs down to the scrap yard on Sat... got 53 cents... labels on not washed out.

Radcliff Ky