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Hello all, just a quick questions for you. I save up my cans until I have a few yard waste bags full of them to cash in. I have also been putting aside my tin food cans from home use, rinsed out, labels removed and crushed flat. I've got a few bags of aluminum ready to be brought in, along with some other steel and copper items, but this is the first load of tin food cans I'll be bringing along. How do the yards treat these cans, as simple steel scrap, or as something else (tin)? Thanks everyone!

yes steel scrap at yards by me

Food cans are not made from the metal tin, but rather steel. Yards often call sheet steel "tin," even though it's not the element tin. My yard says they take them for "free" alongside plastic and glass, but they don't seem to care if you throw them in with other steel scrap...

.08 per pound here. I save every shread of metal i find. It's worth at least .08 per lb. now.

I throw mine in with the light steel when I go to my yard...no prob yet.

A tin can, much like tin foil, is not actually made of tin. Tin is a lead-like metal that doesn't corrode very easily. Steel can are used to package food, but they have a tin coating to keep them from rusting. This is cheaper than making them out of SS I'm assuming. But, at any rate, they will take it as steel.

Thogey wrote:.08 per pound here. I save every shread of metal i find. It's worth at least .08 per lb. now.

A little over .10 now here in Georgia. Steel is looking better every day!

Thogey wrote:.08 per pound here. I save every shread of metal i find. It's worth at least .08 per lb. now.

That's exactly what I got on a couple hundred pounds on Monday at my local yard with a fair amount of steel food cans in the mix. I'm in WA state.