A Pound of Metal per Mile 2024

[Recyclersteve]

Tom, I’m curious how you are doing this.

Are you walking with a pull cart of some kind, driving a golf cart, or doing it some other way?

Have you considered making a YouTube video?

[CrazyTom]

Recyclersteve, I take grocery store plastic bags on my bike rides. The cans and scraps go in the bag, hung from the handle bar.

The golf balls go in my pockets. I usually just get out on early weekend mornings, work allowing.

I have watched You Tubes on guys who dive in golf course ponds to retrieve balls. I don't think there would
be much call of a guy scrounging them from outside the fence (and occasionally through the fence).

[CrazyTom]

6 oz cans
3 oz tire weights
14 oz steel

1 quarter
4 dimes
1 nickel
8 pennies

61 golf balls



2024 totals

12 lb 0 oz cans
15 lb 7 oz steel
1 lb copper/brass
1 lb 9 oz tire weights

$28.37 cash

574 golf balls

[TXSTARFIRE]

61 golf balls? You must have big pockets!

[CrazyTom]

Averaging about 10 per ride.

[CrazyTom]

More tools for the tool box, a 1/2" drive short socket extension and a wire cutter.

1 lb 6 oz steel
1 oz tire weight
9 oz cans

2 quarters
12 dimes
1 nickel
18 pennies

75 golf balls


2024 totals

12 lb 9 oz cans
16 lb 13 oz steel
1 lb copper/brass
1 lb 10 oz tire weights

$30.30 cash

649 golf balls