Recycling for $ question

**warramra** · 08-09-2006, 09:20 AM

I have been trying to research different ideas for making a few more pennies, and I know that this doesn't add up to much but I am looking into recycling our drink cans, and whatever else, for money. Right now we have curbside recycling in our town.

Does anyone do this on a regular basis. Are there questions I should ask the recyclers? Locally we have a couple that do accept aluminum cans from the public and the extra trip could be combined with a trip to the farmers market. There is another place about 35 miles away that also accepts tin cans and steel-wrapped tin cans, and plastics.

I am not looking to make alot of $$ doing this. I just thought that it might be another resource that right now we are giving away.

Any suggestions/experience would be helpful.

Thanks

**nodmicks** · 08-09-2006, 09:29 AM

We have several recycling centers in the town we work in about 30 miles away. They all pay a flat per lb price. The only ? I could think to ask is what they pay per lb.

We don't get much recycling them but I can't see throwing them out.

**fernykins** · 08-09-2006, 09:30 AM

Well I recycle plastic bottles and soda cans.......... I live in Ca so here we make a little money.........1.80 for cans a pound and .70 on plastic. I would do it myself
Fern

**babetteq** · 08-09-2006, 09:34 AM

our recycling pays per can/bottle. I have a savings jar that is solely for recycling money. It doesnt' add up to much, but the pennies count too. I just pick up cans when i see them and throw them into my bag or the back of the car. I figure that it is better than having them all over the roadside. Also events are excellent places to get quite a lot of bottles and cans. I was at a parade this weekend and after the parade picked 4 garbage bagss full of cans adn bottles. THAT will add up to $. Otherwise it just gets thrown away!

**baronmom** · 08-09-2006, 10:05 AM

We redid the siding on our house to vinyl so we saved all the alluminum. We got about $400 for it. It was a lot of work to load it in the truck. I know that cast iron prices are through the roof as is copper.

**PrairieRose** · 08-09-2006, 10:12 AM

You might ask neighbors if you could pick theirs up every few days and add to your load(s).

**Laurie in Bradenton** · 08-09-2006, 01:22 PM

We have recycled for years! So long that the guys at the center know all our names and that we also save points from marlboro cigs, so the smokers their give them to us! We collect cans from all over town and on our jobsites. There is a emtpy five gallon paint bucket in each truck just for that reason. Can are squished flat to make the most room. At home we have a plastic 55 gallon drum where they are collected. Drum has a hole in one corner to allow rainwater out. We also gather hunks of copper, stainless steel and anything that a magnet won't stick to. Iron doesn't pay much. Our scrap place gives out little keychain magnets and has written on the side of my drum its weight so we just have to do the math when dropping it off. Usually we get between 20 and 25 dollars per barrel. Well worth the collecting when a general is late in paying us.

Laurie in Bradenton

**warramra** · 08-10-2006, 09:42 AM

Thank you so much for your input. I figure I need to save up a lot at one time, so the first thing I need to decide is storage.

Thanks again!

**inneedofhope** · 08-12-2006, 04:34 PM

hmm.. I've been doing the pop cans for years. That is actually managed by my ds's grandpa, he collects the cans from several people and deposits the $ into ds's savings for college. We average $100 per year. not too shabby.
I'm not sure if there are any pay sites around here for other items. I've been using the community recycling center, but they don't pay you or anything.

**Laurie in Bradenton** · 08-12-2006, 04:47 PM

Ask around about different scrape sites. Check your phone book under scrape and recycling. Here you can recycle tons of stuff, pallets, cardboard, dead appliances, metals of all sorts. Prices vary by buyer and the different markets around the world. ALot of the scrape collected in our area goes first to Tampa to be loaded on to big ships and then sent to India and China for melting. My mom always jokes that scrape used to be sold to Japan when she was a girl and then Honalulu got bombed with Old Buicks.

Laurie in Bradenton

**fernykins** · 08-12-2006, 06:11 PM

I've be recycling for years......... Soda cans are a 1.80 lb and plastic is .70 a lbs......... I get about 40 dollars when I take them in. It beats throwing them away.
Fern

**leezza** · 08-12-2006, 07:37 PM

Hi,

Hubby and I make about 1.50-2.00 a week recycling our water bottles and such........our neighbor gives us her stuff too because she doesn't want to bother with it.....at one time we kept a small plastic container in our car that had about $65.00 in it......so it does add up quickly.....every little bit helps and ask people if they don't want theres you will take them.

leezza