Can you get money for recycling cans? I don't mean the soda bottle ones, i mean the food cans like peas and

Question

such. If so, how much do you get per can? I know recycling companies get money for recycling things, but can an individual do it by only recycling regular food cans?

Answer 1

Where i live there isn't a recycling place for food cans but a friend of mine who is kind of a penny pincher takes his old food cans to the scrap yard in town and they pay him for the total weight of the cans, but this is kind of hard because they make him clean out any food residue before they accept them.

Answer 2

In California, and other states, your city should provide you with recycling bins to use along with trash pick-up. It is beneficial to recycle with your city as it helps offset the costs of trash collection since the money they get for recyclables is (ideally) translated into lower costs for you. Plus, you are being environmentally friendly by not driving your car to a store to recycle your cans/bottles. If the money for recycling is more of your concern, you should know that the free-standing recycling facilities that are often in the parking lots of grocery stores and the like often do not give you your full redemption value, but rather give you an amount based on the weight of your items. The machines in stores usually give you full value, but you will need to be patient as they are slow.

Answer 3

Depending on where you are located (i didn't look) you might be able to use a Scrap metal facility to get money for aluminum cans. Here in SWVA the local scrap yard gives you .55 per pound. Therefore, 1 can = 1 cents approx. (yes, i weighed them to come to that figure). It might not seem like a lot until you have acquired 10 lbs of cans from the side of the road, lol.

I keep mine, wash them out, and crush them for a year then trade them in for about $22 which in turn pays for my propane tank on my bbq grill. :)

Some facilities do and do not take in food cans due to the lack of responsibility to wash them out thouroghly.

Answer 4

Yes you can but you need to have a volume to earn considerable amount of money. The price depends on your location. Even if you don't earn enough cash it is fulfilling that you are helping the earth minimize energy consumption since recycling save the energy needed to purify the tins that are mined elsewhere. Do recycle please.

Answer 5

money recycling cans soda bottle food cans peas

Answer 6

Yes you can, any scrap yard in Flint town will take metal cans. Of course you will be paid by the ton (2000 lbs) about $150 or so, so you might need to save them up for a while.

Answer 7

You can get money for any metal if you bring it to a scrap dealer. Today's prices for aluminum are $.75 -1.00/lb and steel is selling for $120-150/ton. For the effort involved it is not usually worth it for an individual to sell scrap steel. Non ferrous metals are where the money is.

Answer 8

No you can't. The only reason why you get money back from soda bottles is because when you buy the soda, they charge you extra money (ex. 5 cents in MA)... and you only get the money back if you recycle.

...I would say whoever came up with it was pretty smart.

Answer 9

Probably, but you'd have to check around to find a recycling station that will take them and what their guidelines are. Good luck.

Answer 10

you can it will say on the can,if not ask your local council ,they should help you.but i think you would have to have a large qty to take to gain any money back,you must check on weights as that is what any company of metal will go on.hope this helps.or phone your enviroment council up its in the phone book ,jo