Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

[everything]

The only way to compact these things would be to melt them, and I'm not sure how cost efficient that would be unless you had access to free wood to fuel your little home built foundry.

[Neckro]

So you double dip! 34 or so cans to a pound x .05 CRV = $1.70 + .40 a pound for the alum?

Thats great![/quote]

Not really, you pay .05 extra at the checkout per can. And can only get that back by recycling them. So you're basically loaning Ca money.

[hobo finds]

.74 a pound in So. AZ

[GimmeSomeSilver]

.50/lb in Toledo, Ohio.

[justicious]

south east Florida .50 a pound

[OtusLotus]

I am really sucking wind in Central NJ... just called and they said freakin $0.40/lb.

Which, btw, is the lowest price on this thread so far!

[Tribal Warrior]

I went a couple weeks ago, it was $0.67/lb. here in Northern Indiana.

[scrapper2010]

.60/lb in central Ohio

[adagirl]

.55 lbs. here in middle Georgia on 4/6/12

[HoardCopperByTheTon]

1.90 a pound in CA.

[Tribal Warrior]

Usually if you can get it closer to 'spot' price the better. For quick spot price check kitcometals.com If their margins are bigger than .25 from market prices, they are ripping you off.

[Tribal Warrior]

Usually if you can get it closer to 'spot' price the better. For quick spot price check kitcometals.com If their margins are bigger than .25 from market prices, they are ripping you off.

[No82s]

60 cents 4/11 Twin Cities

[hobo finds]

.76 today in So. AZ

[Investin Cents]

63 cents May 23rd in Central IL.

[50centsaver]

In central WY I only got $.35/lb. That's only about a penny a can- hardly worth it.

I travel to many states for my job as a school assembly performer. This past year I decided to recycle alum cans and scrap I'd find in my spare time. I did ALOT of walking! Metal is money right?! The best place was CA @$1.90/lb for cans (which is GREAT!), but they only take CA cans! I made the mistake of hauling many cans from OR to CA because I couldn't get to a recycler on a Sunday in OR. In N CA they only were able to pay me $.20/lb- scrap price for my OR cans, so instead of making over $30 CA price for my load of cans I only got a few dollars. Lessons are expensive. I understand they have to do this as in the past people were bringing huge amounts from surrounding states. What's nice in CA is they also pay for all CA plastic and CA glass bottles!

OR was cool as I learned in Eugene you DON"T crush your cans- you take them in to say, a grocery store where outside the store you place each can in a machine one at a time, then when you're done you push a button and you get a slip for the total- bring the slip in the store and they pay you.

IA is cool too- in Carroll at the recycling center you merely bring in your cans, NO paperwork or asking you for your ID. They pay $.05 each for alum cans AND $.05 each for all carbonated beverage plastic bottles.

[hobo finds]

Took my dads 145 lbs of alum cans in today he got .81 a pound for them!

[hobo finds]

Some good info on alum cans here...

http://www.cancentral.com/recFAQ.cfm
http://www.aluminum.org/Content/Navigat ... glance.pdf
http://www.alcoa.com/recycling/en/info_ ... w_much.asp

[TB Bucs#1]

OR was cool as I learned in Eugene you DON"T crush your cans- you take them in to say, a grocery store where outside the store you place each can in a machine one at a time, then when you're done you push a button and you get a slip for the total- bring the slip in the store and they pay you.

I don't mean to sound naive but I never realized that these machines weren't in every state. We have them in every grocery store I've ever been to. They have them for cans as well as plastic bottles as well and glass. They don't take everything but the plastic ones are starting to take Poland Springs water bottles as well as the usual soda bottles.

I always was confused as to why you would take cans to a scap yard when you could just take them to a grocery store.

[Arnold Layne]

In so cal today I got $2.05 for crv alum cans and $1.10 for crv plastic bottles with a coupon from the pennysaver

[sparechange]

.55/lb Central Tx

[MetalMan]

Interesting comment from Novelis, who by the way, it seems to me, is the entity that high volume players on this site need to sell directly to: "He said that but the recent slump in aluminum prices to below USD 2,000 per tonne, a level considered critically low has made the issue all the more noticeable. Availability has been constrained as scrap yards hoping for a price rebound hold onto stock of the used beverage cans, referred to as UBC in the industry." http://www.steelguru.com/metals_news/No ... 67668.html

Hmmm, if scrap dealers are hoarding then what does that mean for us?

[50centsaver]

"Hmmm, if scrap dealers are hoarding then what does that mean for us?"

Wouldn't this apply pressure to raise the price per lb? Less supply/more demand? I don't think the sugar junkies of the U.S. will stop drinking pop/soda anytime soon, so there will be demand for alum unless God forbid plastic use for pop goes up. (They call it pop here in MN.)

Here in MN the price recently dropped to .55/lb from .60. The place I take mine gives you the choice to take cash or tokens, which can be used at participating stores. If you take tokens it's always .10 more a lb, so I always get the tokens- no brainer. I always use them for gas.

Metal is money- free (cans) for the taking. All you have to do is find them.

Getting rich, one can at a time. Ha!

[cwgii]

a rebel mexican , one man on a bare lot.. paying .95 when the place next door, is .56........... yet i saw folks taking cans to 'the big buisness'.

tucson folks, this guy is on price rd. just off off romero

[scrapper2010]

.52 / lb in Ohio