Does anyone save alluminum cans anymore?

We take certain things to our local recycling center - aluminum cans and any bottles with a crv value. Everything else that's recyclable goes to the city. The kids help their dad and whichever one goes with him gets to keep the money.

When I lived up north for a few year's and back when I was a kid, they recycled can's and bottle's by giving you 5 cent's each for them. Now in the South you have to sell can's by the pound and it's not much at all, but I make sure that we keep them. I told the kid's last week that next summer we will cash them in and try and get them a small pool for the back yard with the cash. I figure if we can even save $25 to $50 worth of can's from going into a land fill it help's. Of course the pool will cost more then that, but the kid's will think they paid for it by saving the can's for it.

I do save them for my roomie's dad. I also pick them up at my client's apartment complex and if I see them around the neighborhood.

We still recycle aluminum cans, but there is not a place that acceps steel or glass. So, aluminum cans are all that we can recycle. It takes us longer than it used to to get enough cans to sell. Other people are keeping their own cans to sell. Good Discussion. Happy Mylotting

Yep, I recycle aluminum cans. I've even started saving steel and tin cans (the cans things like soup and canned food come in) as well. I actually just took some sacks of aluminum this morning and got some money for them which makes me some happy lol.

I am guilty. I recycle all of my cans, from the aluminum soda cans to the steel vegetable cans. And yes, sometimes I do pick up the stray can from the parking lot. I usually have some latex gloves in my car, and I will only pick up the cans if I have one on. Also, I will once in a while "clean up" the road that I live on. I live out in the country, and people don't think anything of throwing their trash out of their car windows. I try to pick it up so that no animals will be hurt on the plastic, glass, etc.

We save cans and turn them in to the junk yard and make a little extra cash. We also save copper and other metals. The only thing we dont save at this point but plan on it in the future when we get things more organized is tin cans. Truthfully the extra cash can really help too and we are doing good for the environment.

hello 3SnugglesBunnies, No, I don't save them but my wife does. She saves the cans, plastics and papers but only for the household uses. When the container/s are already full she is selling them to the people who's job is to buy those things. Before the cost per kilo is a little beat high but now not anymore. She can saves some money there that she can use in buying compose, plants or pots. Gold from trash.

My son is in charge of aluminum cans here. He has been saving them up since January this time. He usually turns them in when there is something that he really wants, but with aluminum prices being as low as they have been he has kept them all. He has probably close to 100 pounds of them back in the garage right now. He said he wants to wait for aluminum prices to go back up before he turns them in.

I used to save them, picking them up where I could and turning them in when I had a big bag. I used the money for Christmas presents and other extras for my kids. My husband hated it but he didn't understand that I wanted some money I earned myself. I don't do it anymore because I don't drink anything from cans and the kids around here do a pretty good job of cleaning up the cans!

I don't sell cans, but I do save them for a person in my neighborhood that sells them. I also save them for my cousin's sons. My neighbor sold the cans that she had saved and I am told she made over $300.00 for them. I know myself that she had great big piles of them in her backyard. She was waiting for the price to go up and I am told they did go up to 40 cents a pound. She made a good profit.

Oh yes we do recycle aluminum cans here at the house. I always try to buy the sodas for the weekly lunches in cans and I make sure that everyone brings their cans back home so that we can build up our collection and turn them in for cash. My future MIL also saves her cans for us. It is amazing that the extra little bit of $ from the cans really adds up. It at least buys gas for the lawn mower or the occasional household product needed. We do recycle our other metals and plastics as well (no pay for them).

my father is a fan of junk shop. he collects anything that he can sell to this shops. from plastic bags, aluminum cans, bottles, newspaper and even bottlecaps. he even have the tendency to walk around our neigborhood just to pick up junk and sell them during sunday morning. so as a gift for him, i brought home some stuffs i saw in the office like bottles and papers to addto his piles of junk. apart from helping clean the environment, i guess he also profits from those junk thats why we support him.

nope, not collecting them now last time i remember when the days were good and metal prices were high, metal products could be sold for a lot of money. same goes for those cans but since the days are bad now and metal prices dropping, its hard to sell metal products at a good price in my country, i am not so sure about it, but 1 empty can is only $0.10. and we dont really have recycle bins, so we just collect it and sell to junk buyer, thats all. anyway, small amount only, hardly can do anything with it

we save ours and take them out to the roomie's dad who when the price is high enough and he has enough, will sell them, he's made up to $300 on them in the past

it's not worth it around here-the cash in place is on the other side of the state, and you'd have to have tonnage to even make it worthwhile for what you pay in gas and tolls.we have a collection bin,so i just pitch them in there.

We have a bottle deposit system here in maine (which is what a previous poster was refering to) It isn't that they just GIVE you 5 cents per can or bottle, when you pay for the cans or bottles, you actually get charged an additional 5 cents at the register, then when you bring the bottle back to a redemption center you get the 5 cents back, so you really aren't earning any money for recycling, they are just giving you your money back... But years ago when i was still living in nebraka, was used to save all of our aluminum cans and crush them. The hardware store in town would take them back in and give up soemthing like 16cents per pound...but you only got it in store credit. that worked fine for my brother and i though, as the hardware store had an awesome penny candy sections, and a couple bucks in store credit there would allow us to stop in for a speial treat now and then