My yard pays .55 a pound, and if you're over 75 lbs, they bump it another 20 cents per pound. I'll take cans, fold/crush them and throw them in a big lawn bag. I save up until I get a full van-load (anywhere from 1-3 months if I'm not particularly lucky with finding them) and that's nearly a hundred bucks. That's with no effort... if I actually try hard, go on walks down the road, look in garbage cans, I could probably do that much in 1-2 weeks (and that's still only a minimal effort). I won't necessarily hop out of my van for one pop can, but I do collect them. It's worth it to me.
My grandmother was always a can-collector... like somebody else posted, it was how she paid for a yearly vacation, and she usually did pretty nice vacations. I blame her for giving me the scraping bug!
Funny story: Last Saturday I was in line at the pay-out window at the yard, and a guy in front of me was drinking an energy drink in one of those big cans. He threw it away in the can by the door. As I left, I reached in the can and grabbed it (and another one that was in there). A guy further back in line chuckled and told me that he was going to do the same thing.
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