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    .35 a lb. here in Montana, up from .25 a lb. over the winter.
    But it's hornet season now so .35 a pound sounds good to me!



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    Well is seems that most of the places that were paying sky high rates have gotten together and are price fixing. Everyone now paying $.55 - $.65 for cans and $.25 - $.30 for #1 plastic depending on how many pounds you have. I cant get to mad at the setting of prices as it is either harder for them to get rid of there cans or they don't want too much attention when paying way more than normal scrap yard prices. One yard I go to, a normal scrap yard pays more for cans as a way to get people to come to the yard. But now that the fly by night places are dropping there prices I am sure he will follow. Saving my cans till I have 100 pounds or more and the plastic 50 pounds or more and try to get the best price for them as they are crushed...

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    Cans have been .40 here in pa

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    0.44/lb

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    Quote Originally Posted by hobo finds View Post
    Well is seems that most of the places that were paying sky high rates have gotten together and are price fixing. Everyone now paying $.55 - $.65 for cans and $.25 - $.30 for #1 plastic depending on how many pounds you have. I cant get to mad at the setting of prices as it is either harder for them to get rid of there cans or they don't want too much attention when paying way more than normal scrap yard prices. One yard I go to, a normal scrap yard pays more for cans as a way to get people to come to the yard. But now that the fly by night places are dropping there prices I am sure he will follow. Saving my cans till I have 100 pounds or more and the plastic 50 pounds or more and try to get the best price for them as they are crushed...
    too many of them got caught sneaking the cans into CA. you are still getting paid too much. your top price is real close to the secondary refiner price with shipping. is there a refiner in Tucson??? if not it is people abusing CRV

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    I's 30 cents for cans out here probably better price with more weight.
    Got 37 cents for aluminum 6063 extruded the old patio door not much fun deglazing 7' sheets of glass.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HT1 View Post
    too many of them got caught sneaking the cans into CA. you are still getting paid too much. your top price is real close to the secondary refiner price with shipping. is there a refiner in Tucson??? if not it is people abusing CRV

    V/r HT1
    That's funny and likely true.
    A couple of years ago there were some high profile busts and the fines are HUGE if you get caught here in CA bringing in out of state cans.

    Funny side note. One time at my scrapyard they were debating something over a large gaylord of cans. Manager was involved and bottom line, they were out of state stuff. Her told them calmly without suggesting any wrong doing that he can't pay CRV but since it is Alu he will pay half....

    Except that was still about $1 per lbs. I am pretty sure they later accidentally got mixed in with the regular CRV stuff.
    Time is Money - Crunch the Numbers - It's a Numbers Game!

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    Local yard is doing $.22/# for sheet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breakage View Post
    Local yard is doing $.22/# for sheet.
    Detail: VT is a Bottle Bill state and aluminum can/foil recycling is legally mandated (Act 148). Practically no can ever reaches the yards before a redemption center or recycling bin. Our yard pays out in sheet, though I have been offered slightly better pricing if I wanted to bring cans, only. I just don't have the volume for it.

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    .35 for cans + .05 coupon so ended up at .40/lb wow..........

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    Yesterday was paid $2.02 per pound, so up a penny!

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    Quote Originally Posted by bigburtchino View Post
    Yesterday was paid $2.02 per pound, so up a penny!
    $2.02....what kind of deposit do you guys have out there?

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    Quote Originally Posted by andyheim View Post
    $2.02....what kind of deposit do you guys have out there?
    That is CRV, you see why people are trying to slip out of state can into California, californai taxpayers are subsidizing recycling. nothing wrong with the system as long as you can close the loop which is impossible, if we went nation wide with a CRV type program, china would try to sneak can in

    V/r HT1

    P.S. California just cannot figure out supply and demand all the way back to the 80's they tried stupid economic crap check this out Quit California? Don't Bet on It : Insurers Said the Same to Florida Rollback, but They Stayed - latimes
    and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califo...Sweeney_2002-6

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    We pay $0.05 for each CRV beverage container that is under 24 ounce. For containers over 24 ounces we pay $0.10, this is at point of sale for all retail purchases. We also pay a sales tax on the CRV fee's, that is 7.5% on the total of all CRV containers (6.25% state and 1.25% local sales tax). So a six pack of your favorit beer will cost you $0.30 for the CRV and $0.02 sales tax. That's $0.32 additional cost added to every six pack. We pay to play in Calif.

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    I got 42 cents a pound for Al cans on Thursday here, been fairly constant for a while. Some other stuff was 35 cents a lb. for clean aluminum and $1.58 for #2 Cu, mostly tv yoke wire...

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    Quote Originally Posted by bigburtchino View Post
    We pay $0.05 for each CRV beverage container that is under 24 ounce. For containers over 24 ounces we pay $0.10, this is at point of sale for all retail purchases. We also pay a sales tax on the CRV fee's, that is 7.5% on the total of all CRV containers (6.25% state and 1.25% local sales tax). So a six pack of your favorit beer will cost you $0.30 for the CRV and $0.02 sales tax. That's $0.32 additional cost added to every six pack. We pay to play in Calif.
    Tax on the deposit blows!

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    $.48 / lb for cans, $.40/lb for cast and extruded

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    In Central Mesa Az it's a buck a pound for cans. The place we sell to pays a dime a pound more if they are smashed.

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    Well, here is my haul today. Looks like 41 cents a lb.


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    We are doing aroun .32/lb down here in Louisiana


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