Bucket of aluminium cans mixed in with used oil filters1

I got a bunch of scrap yesterday but also got a large container with aluminum cans mixed in with used oil filters! Just going to add the oily cans and used filters into microwaves and such as I don't want these cans mixed in with my good clean cans! What would you do?

Depends on how time you want to work the problem. If you have a 5 gallon bucket (or larger) fill it half or so full of highly soapy water. Drop in as many cans as the bucket will hold and swish around. That should take off the main amount of oil off of the cans until your amount of soap is broken down and can't work anymore. Repeat until you're done or get frustrated with it all...

I'd clean em up and trade em in, then again I go after the tabs and the rest of the can goes into the redemption machine clean or dirty.

This is what is done here based on our yards. As far as the aluminum cans, I would just turn them in. At the local yards (any yard within 60 miles), a film of oil on the cans is okay as long as they are not filled with oil. As far as the oil filters, these have to be burned before the yard will accept. This puts a scraper in a tough position, either add to global warming (it is below zero here) or take them to the landfill to pollute the land. Take a guess as to what we do.

I attempted to wash them in a 5 gal bucket with Dawn dish soap. Not worth it there is about 60 cans. Crushed them and added them to 2 stripped out microwaves. Heck still money, and they will get processed down the line unlike the landfill (until we mine the old landfills for metals!)

Couldnt they have be sold as aluminum breakage/dirty?