Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

[hobo finds]

old realcent link here http://realcent.forumco.com/topic.asp?T ... hichpage=1 goes back to Aug 2008!!!!!


In So. AZ. .55 a pound.

[wayne1956]

Same in South Ft Worth area, .55 a pound

[aussamdad]

Southern Harris County TX..same...$0.55 lb.

[misteroman]

.05 here in wny. how many cans are in a lb anyways? heard it was30. might start saving the non returnable ones.

[simplicitycounts]

32 normal pop / beer cans. The monster / tea / red bull cans can throw it off a bit. MN seems to get 35 cents to 70 cents a pound depending on the season. 45 cents is pretty normal for me at the scrap yard.

[MetalMan]

....from the Aluminum Association (below), September 14, 2010, I assume "beverage" is a 12 oz can......I for one am hoarding aluminum cans (super-smashed for storage) for various reasons, partly because I believe I deserve more the 55 cents a pound and so I'll just do my duty to squeeze the supply.

• "Today’s beverage can weighs only 0.466 ounces, more than 15 % lighter than in 1993.
Through engineering and technology advancements, the can continues to become lighter while delivering the same serving size and using fewer resources—a goal of any container. There are 34.35 aluminum beverages to a pound."

[GA-Silver]

$.60 a lb in NW GA last week.

[Corsair]

$.40/lb in Eastern Missouri.

[tyoon21]

$0.40 / pound here in Orlando

[wildjo]

$0.40 in central ohio.

I say "price fixing"!

[maoguinn]

.40lb in Lubbock, TX

[GA-Silver]

$.63 a lb today in NW GA

[Rosco]

.05 cents each in Oregon

[Rosco]

$.40/lb in Eastern Missouri.

Who is Harvey Dent ??

[rickygee]

$.40/lb in Eastern Missouri.

Who is Harvey Dent ??

Who is John Galt?

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

The yard I use had posted their prices....cans $0.42 lb. Guess the pile gets bigger! Northwest Indiana....oopsie!

[coinwolf]

$0.50 lb. here in eastern NC

[aussamdad]

still 0.55 lb in southern harris County Texas....when will it reach 0.80?

[MetalMan]

My guess is not too long. If the Fed announces QE 2.0 in November and oil makes it way over $100, taking the whole commodity sector with it, who knows how high prices will go. The price of smelting aluminum will obviously become higher and if enough of us sit on our stash, that should do the trick. The question is when it breaks $.80, how much will that be worth after the incessant loss of USD purchasing power.

[dedemama]

$0.60 lb in Minneapolis.

[HoardCopperByTheTon]

1.75 lb in CA

[MetalMan]

wow, 1.75! how much extra "refundable" tax does a person pay in the Socialist Republic of Kalifornia for alum. beverages? It must be $.05 - $.10 per 12 oz can.

It would be worth it for me, even with the extra fuel costs, to carry some Al with me on my next vacation to the Republic.

[hobo finds]

.60 a pound in So. AZ.

[aussamdad]

other day..$0.60 lb....then at another place same day they were at .45 lb. Maybe I will save my cans for a trip to the republic also...calculate about 50,000 cans should make for a decent 5 day vay-cay. Actually I would rather go anywhere else than to the land of fruit and nuts.

[thedude]

Iowa - .05 per can/bottle.