California Redemption Plastic & Aluminum
Work has been slow and scrap prices are down in my area. Today while sitting on my couch with no work I decided to take the dog for a walk. We strolled over to the local high school and I took a peek into an on campus garbage container. The thing was chalked full of aluminum cans and plastic bev containers. I scrounged up a few empty plastic bags and went to work. A couple hours later after scouring the whole campus I ended up with two huge bags of plastic and one huge bag of aluminum. Tomorrow I plan on hitting the other high school in town...hehe. Besides from my own consumption I've never really done the bev container recycling gig. Here in California I have two options for selling bev containers. Option one is take them to the scrap yard and sell by weight. 1.80-2.00 a pound for cans and I believe around 90 cents per pound on plastic bottles. The other option is the reverse vending machines. You put empty bev containers in, and you get a ticket for payment at a near by store. I know for cans they pay 5 cents a piece for under 12 oz and 10 cents for 24 oz and up. I believe its the same for plastic but not positive. Im terrible with math so my question is would I get a better pay check selling by weight or selling each individual container separately? I searched the forums for an answer before posting this and found none....Thanks. :confused:
