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Dont know how I stumbled upon this thread..must be the 6 pack in the can bin already..hahaha
My 2nd job at the liquor store provides $40 a week at least..I drive 9 miles weekly nd pick up my customers cans..plus I get all their other scrap..long live beer drinkers!!!
I actually worked out a deal with a mobile home park owner and I spent 10 dollars ea on a few garbage cans and placed them next to the dumpsters of 5 mobile home parks.i stop buy once a week and pull about 20-30 lbs a week from them
We recycle ours because
It is like buying cokes at a discount.
Since I joined this forum I have a 55 gal drum 3/4 full of crushed cans (soda and energy drinks).
I save the cans I get given & find.
I get given cans by one guy who saves them up for me, I save up any empty recycleable (reusable) beer bottles for him in exchange.
He swaps the beer bottles with a guy who makes homebrew alcohol (who needs them to put his homebrew in) he gets free homebrew for it. Win Win.
Once I save the cans up, I cash them in when I cash in all my nonferrous metal.
Oddly, The amount of $$ I give to the guy who vehicle I use to transport all my nonferrous metal in, is the same as what I get for the cans in the first place.
ie last time I got 25$ in cans & paid the vehicle guy $25 for his 'petrol - time - vehicle - no hassles - timing' (I give him $5 for each one, $25 all up)
I can't imagine just cans, it will not do the job by itself. What I have been doing is cashing in on all the ones I can get for my State and all the other ones get tossed in shrewd. Also, the regular cans like bean and corn goes into shred. While cans can't do it by themselves, it's few cents in dollar. It all counts and its all about having the right perspective.
Before starting a Keto diet I was drinking a case of beer a week, plus another 12-20 pop cans from other family members. I have a couple buddies who share a house, though, and they drink about 100 beers a week between the two of them. They don't have a truck, but save all their cans for me. Usually when I come get them, there is 100-150lbs. I kick them back a 12 pack of something decent, or a 30 pack of swill as gratitude.
Cans are what got me started, they are what got my lil bro started, and its what got my dad started.walking around my hood usually gets me daily 4-5 pounds and @ $0.55/lb
Aluminum cans is how I got my start scrapping. We go for walks all the time, and every time we go, whether it be a walking trail, lake, river, we take a bag with us and pick up every can we see. I have a can crusher outside and after crushing the can falls directly into a 55 gallon drum. When the drum is full they go into a drum liner. It usually ends up being about 30 pounds. I get $0.60 at my yard so thats $18 per bag. The bags go behind my shed. I'm currently waiting til i get 10 bags to take them in.
The way i see it is, no one says you are crazy for picking up one penny from the ground, so why should i be considered crazy for picking up every 2 cent can i see. Makes more money to pick up a can than it does a penny.
ya cans are awesome here in iowa I get 5cents whole 3cents crushed in which I used to separate but end up crushed a lot anyway when throwing in steel and what knots so know when I work my route on sun/mon mornings and thurs/fri mornings I just crush it all and save some time. people say on man 2 cents your losing but I make up for it saving space for cut off cords or maybe a microwave and such and 2000-3000 cans adds up fast to fill this frozen ice pop box that's the size of a pallet but has a hole in the bottom so I have it up on top of my small steel area with a card board piece under it so when I fill the bags the can place gives me I just put it under it and mostly works out well lol. I live in a college town so cans add up fast
Wow, I was wondering for a second how you would collect so many cans. People here just take in the ones they buy mostly because there are so many people going around collecting them.Quote:
Originally Posted by travistemple202020
I hate cans. Dripping nasty sticky things. It takes to many to even make a buck, hardly worth collecting.
Like the fella next to the college, down here on my sandbar..I could probaly survive just off cans alone. Long live drunk tourists who drink lots an lots of can'd drinks since you can't walk with glass on the beach.
I know a fella who does nothing but hit beach accesses every day an fills up bags of cans. Piers, beach accesses, cans on the road..etc. I don't focus on cans btu I pick them up when I come across them, it all adds to my bottom line. I don't look down on divers nor folks who pick up cans, whatever works for you an brings in the cash is a good thing.
Sirscrapalot - Hugs on the house!
Aluminum cans are what got me started too. I've been saving them all my life. Every morning during the summer I ride my bicycle 8 miles round trip out to the local softball diamonds and pick them up. I figure I'm getting $15 to $20 a week worth of them. I look at it as getting paid to exercise.
Don't get a whole lot of cans but save what I get.
Freeway I take to the yard someone must have lost a partial bag of crushed cans and they are scattered in the median for about 1/4 mile. Busy highway and I keep trying to convince myself it's not worth it...so far I'm a believer.
Here in Germany its mainly all glass and plastic bottles with a deposit. All drink cans have deposit on them (.25 Euro cent - around .30 cent dollarwise) so I pick them up and lower my grocery bill !