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**hobo finds** · 03-26-2018, 11:42 AM

How about getting a can / bottle place to pay for a sign that you can put on the bike trailer kind of like a sponsor with your YouTube info? Also is there a market for all the glasses that people take from casino to casino and leave all around the strip? Could you collect them and sell them back to the casinos? I am sure the casinos don't care about the glasses that walk away though...

I do the same thing with numbers here is my info on empty miller lite cans. ( I did the study myself) LOL

# to make a pound
32 - 12 oz.
32 - 16 oz. tall cans
16 - 24 oz. cans
18 - 16 oz. alum bottles with caps
12 - 32 oz. alum can

And at $.95 a pound for cans here it comes out to..
$.03 a can for 12 oz. and 16 oz. cans
$.05 a can for 16 oz. bottle with cap
$.06 a can for 24 oz.
$.08 a can for 32 oz.

**CyberScrapper** · 03-26-2018, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by hobo finds

# to make a pound
32 - 12 oz.
32 - 16 oz. tall cans
16 - 24 oz. cans
18 - 16 oz. alum bottles with caps
12 - 32 oz. alum can

And at $.95 a pound for cans here it comes out to..
$.03 a can for 12 oz. and 16 oz. cans
$.05 a can for 16 oz. bottle with cap
$.06 a can for 24 oz.
$.08 a can for 32 oz.

hobo finds, that is about exactly the numbers I come up with. I also have the numbers for plastic. I did plastic for a bit here because prices was pretty good and there's a **** load of plastic that gets thrown away in Vegas.

What I did is purchased a scale off eBay that measures grams and collect about 50 pieces of each can, plastic bottle, etc and weight them and got an average. Then I made an excel sheet with all the measures and downloaded Excel for my mobile phone. So all I have to do is each time I pick up a can, plastic, etc I add it to the excel sheet and it keeps a running total of the weight I have for each item and my total weight.

So I know about exactly how much aluminum, plastic, etc I have when I go weight in at the recycler.

Yes, some of my friends say that's pretty much OCD...