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    Aluminum Cans < Sheet Aluminum?

    Does anyone else's yard screw them on can prices? My yard insists on paying about $.26/lb for cans and $.50/lb for clean sheet. If you have less than a lb of cans, then they have to throw it in with the dirty alu, they won't let just a few slide with the clean alu.

    They say the reason for this is because the alu in cans is recycled so often that it isn't as high of a quality. I call BS. Anyone else agree?

    Yeah that's great and all...but...CAN I SCRAP IT!?


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    IIRC cans are actually a better grade of aluminum so they can be recycled back into cans. You should be getting double what you are.
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    That's exactly what I thought.

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    My yard's pricing on most things is horrible compared to what I see a lot of people getting on here, but cans are the "best" level of aluminum to take in. Last time I took some in (few weeks back) I think it was 60 cents/lb. It's been more than 50 cents/lb for ages.

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    I think at my yard the extruded is the only class of alum that is higher than cans.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CanIScrapIt View Post
    Does anyone else's yard screw them on can prices? My yard insists on paying about $.26/lb for cans and $.50/lb for clean sheet. If you have less than a lb of cans, then they have to throw it in with the dirty alu, they won't let just a few slide with the clean alu.

    They say the reason for this is because the alu in cans is recycled so often that it isn't as high of a quality. I call BS. Anyone else agree?
    It's reversed at most of the yards near me. .30# for sheet and .55 for cans.

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    Cans are a higher payout compaired to the other grades here, except for MLC or siding
    Heres how they pay on the south side of Chicago

    MLC at .50
    Alum siding at .50
    CANS at .49
    Ext at .48
    Alum sheet at .42
    Cast at .38
    Alum wound motors at .14


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