Can you sell aluminium cans and baked bean, tuna, ext tins to a scrap metal yard?

Answer 1

Yes some do take them, but you need to wash them out first ans make sure there is no paper left on them.
You would be best to phone them up 1st, but you would need a lot to make any money.

Answer 2

In Northeast Ohio Aluminium cans go for about 50-70 cents per pound and tin cans don't pay anything. But each place pays different. Sorting the aluminium and tin would be you best bet.

Answer 3

Cans made entirely of aluminum are bought by the pound by scrap metal dealers in every city and town in the US. You will find their ads in the yellow pages. Cans made entirely of steel ("tin cans") are bought only by major scrap metal dealers, in large quantities, because steel is worth no more than a few dollars a ton. Some cans are steel with aluminum tops or bottoms, and you have to separate the aluminum from the steel in order to sell the scrap. In Tucson, city and private waste collectors accept steel cans for pickup, as part of the recycling service, and sell the pile they get to the metal dealer. This is the only way to get enough steel cans to matter.

Answer 4

I think aluminium cans are your best bet as they normally have more recyclable value than steel (which is what most of your food tins will be made of.)

You can find a list of places which will give you cash for your cans via the search facility on http://www.alupro.org.uk/cash%20for%20cans.htm

Many collection points will probably only accept the cans in large quantities from you though so best to check with each centre before you start your collection.

Answer 5

Well, yes but only if they have a muchine that recycles aluminum, not all metal yards do, some do plastic, others do only steal, best way it to look up on line for the nerast recycle facility, they should be able to tell you wear and how much u can get.

Answer 6

You can sell alluminium cans and steel cans to scrap yards, however you may find that (if you have enough of them) steel mills may be willing to take them off your hands, they will accept them loose, baled or densified.

Current wholesale rates as of April 2007, per tonne;

Steel Cans - $180
Aluminium Cans - $1580 (loose / loose & flattened ) or $1680 (baled or densified and strapped)

Aluminium cans, it takes only 4% of the energy to recycle them than to produce them from raw materials. Saving 64,300 kWhs per tonne. Taking the US average kWh price across all states at 8.14c per kWh, this equates to a saving of $5234 per tonne of aluminium in energy costs and emissions of about 29 tonnes of Co2 and 1280mg of mercury.

One tonne of tin or steel saves 1.5t of ore. Tin saves an estimated 2 600 kWhs per tonne. Steel saves an average 4 300 kWhs per tonne or 47% of the energy required to process steel from raw materials.

Good luck, you can make alot of money from recycling!

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Answer 7

yes,they buy by the pound and sell it to metal foundries.It saves the energy used to mine,process ore,heat it,etc.The cans need to be clean or they attract pests.Look under metal salvage or scrap metal recycling in the Yellow pages.

Answer 8

Some recyclers will accept mixed metals. They can easily be separated from aluminum with an electromagnet apparatus.

You will make more money if you separate the aluminum yourself and recycle them separately though.

Answer 9

Fruits. Bananas are my favorite. btw did you know that tomatoes are the #1 selling fresh fruit? true beans

Answer 10

Yes, but they tend to buy by the tonne, or by a cubic metre. Start collecting, why not?!