In California, if you take Aluminum cans into a recycle plans, they pay CRV value, CRV = California Redemption Value which ends up being something like .6 cents or whatever the CRV value is, same for plastic, etc. If you take heat sinks that are anodized into a recycle center, you get dirty aluminum prices. If you melt your Al and cast into bars, you get clean Al price, not dirty, not CRV value, you get the actual value of the metal.
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