Do You Save Your Cans?

Twice now Ive written a long reply to this post. But both times the webpage has crashed out on me & i've lost it :-( I guess I'm just not *meant* to take part! However, I'll try again .... I save all my cans, but i take them to the council recycling facility rather than keeping them for cash myself. To be honest I wouldn't know how to do that arounf here. I often wonder if it is something I ought to investigate though. I've no problem picking up the odd can if it earns me a penny here and there. I pick up litter anyway to throw it away, it's one of my pet hates. Now I'm not sure whether by cans you mean just drinks cans or whether you include the cans that food comes in? So I have two questions. firstly, don't you have to store an awful lot of them before it's worth cashing them in? in which case, where do you keep them? And secondly, don't you have to wash them well to prevent pests being attracted? Is it worthwhile? I rinse them just now, but i'd have to do a better job if they were going to be hanging around for a while.

I assume we are talking soda cans? That is the only thing we get reimbursed for here. We get 5 cents per soda can or bottle, of course we have to pay that 5 cents upfront when we purchase them. Most times I do return them and get the money back, but sometimes, especially if my husband brings them in the car, they get so crushed I cannot return them. I would like to try to use the money I get from returning the cans towards my savings account, but more often than not I use it to make a further purchas, something I may have forgotten while grocery shopping. I am going to return some tonight and I have to buy a lunch for my kids to take on a feild trip on Wednesday.

Sure do! I walk the roadsides, parks, and raid the garbage cans at some stores as well for cans. I crush and save them in 55-gallon contractor bags. Once I have at least 5 bagfuls, I take em in for cash. I average $100 a load, sometimes more. We also recycle scrap metal and tin cans for cash.

I have 3 large bags of crushed cans. We drink Coke here and I can't bear throw them all away! So I rinse them out, crush them and put them in a bag. I really need to find someplace local to take them.

it is good for the environment as well and why not recycle no sense in wasting our resources by throwing them away.

Yes in fact I'm taking a few bags in today.And I'm luckty because the place is less than amile away.I think I'll look for some along to road while I'm out too.Right now I'm doing anything I can to make a buck.

I remember going around to different places and along side the road looking for cans when I was a little girl. We don't do that anymore, but we do save our cans and turn them in for the cash. It's not a lot, like you said, but it's better than throwing them away and not getting anything. I figure we drink our drinks out of the can, we might as well save the cans and get something out of them other than just the drinks. I've even got my mom saving her cans.

My nephew collects them. We give him our popcans whenever we get a big enough bag of them. He actually just brought in a whackload not long ago. Got somewhere between 25 and 30 dollars for them (I forget the exact amount)

Yes i also save my cans and other things that can be recycled, I dont sell them I just give them to beggars so that they can also earn something and buy for their food.

Hi, I too always save my cans. I also have been known to go along the road looking for them. I figure it is saving the environment and making me a buck at the same time. Winners both ways! cheers,

We do not save our cans to cash them in, but we do recycle them. I know when I was a kid we used to do it on certain pop bottles, if we took them back to the shop we got 10p for each one. My mum used to let me take them and then I could keep the money for sweets!! That was fun, I enjoyed doing that, I could get quite a lot of sweets with the money back then.

I save my popcans but not the cans for food. theres no where near here to take them to.

Do you knoow I have never done that. I have known people who have done so by helping to collect for organizations.I am sure it is worth doing, for one; it detour folks from putting cans all over ther place,and it will help to keep a cleaner environment.

i recycled my cans , well there is no other options except to put it in the trash ...

We try to save cans and take them in. We dont drink enough soda make it worth our while but we have family saving them for us and we drive around and pick them up and take them in. We use the money to save up for our family Disneyland trips.

we dont have anything like that here in canada but i do save all my cans so that they can be recycled. i think that this is a healthy idea for our environment! good on you if you get cash for them!

Where I live, saving cans for cash rebate isn't available? So instead my family recycles plastics, cans, newspapers and cardboard..which is all they allow here in Florida. But we are doing this each and every time and if they allowed more..we would recycle more. Instead, besides recycling, we are involved in not using palstic grocery bags and use reusable cotton ones instead and try to keeep the foods we use down to those that have the least amount of packaging. Veggies and the fruits that grow well here..we do those ourselves in the garden and then can them or package and freeze. Every little bit helps?

I dont at this time, but I do know several people that does. I have done this in the past when I was younger as well as copper and such. I would walk the roads and such picking up the cans that others had discarded.

i am not the one who really saves the cans, bottles and other plastic waste, it is my wife that has the real idea of it. she used to save them and later on, our kids bring them to the junk shop to sell. you're right that they don't sell much, but for us, that's a little help for some little needs for the kids...

No I don't save cans. My mother does. When I was younger I remember going with my grandparents to the parks and along the road collecrion cans. NOT TO FUN!!