Throwing away aluminum cans is a waste of money!(a rant)

I live less than a block away from a school and in their parking lot they have a fence enclosure where you can donate cans. The funds go to the school and the various needs they have. That is where I usually put my cans. Before that though, I used to give them to my neighbor. I am always collecting stuff like that. The school also makes money off of certain milk caps and pop can tabs. I can save up quite a bit in the span of a year and it all helps to improve my kids's school. =)

I save cans for the roommate's dad, tho I may start saving them for myself, he's such an ungrateful boob

I hate to see anything wasted. I don't bother to rescue aluminum cans from people's trash cans. The price that one can get for them doesn't make it worth the trouble. I have rescued other usable items, such as a cart, dishes, even clothing, from garbage cans. I wash them and take them to our local charity thrift store. It does get my dander up when people throw cans, bottles and other garbage out of their cars. I hate seeing our city dirtied up like that.

I just recently took my aluminum cans to a collection site and made $4.05. It might not seem like a lot of money, but it's not too bad for so little effort.

Aluminum cans don't need to be thrown away. They can be recycled. Doing this is something good for the planet and ourselves as well.

Good perspective! Here in South Australia, the recycling centres all pay ten cents per used drink container. Whether they're glass or plastic bottles, cans or cardboard drink containers, all are legislated to be paid at ten cents each. Scrap metal is also good money for the keen recyclers. Copper pays at about six dollars a kilogram for the top grades & other metals pay a bit less. I've made over $200 a month doing this.

here in canada where i live you dont make any money by recycling cans sadly.

I so agree with you on this one , blue! I have a friend that bought a Harley that he's wanted for years by turning in Aluminum cans. I don't have the room any more to save them up for him but I do recycle because I know that the money for them goes to a good cause. It isn't that hard to do. I just keep an extra bag and put my cans in it and drop it the bin that we have out her for cans. If you are not going to save the cans to benefit your own family then the least you can do is recycle them to help others. Also those flip top tabs help with education.

I collect cans and take them to a recycling place across town that buys them. I manage to take a load two or three times per year, and I have gotten as much as $100.00 per load for them. It is a good way to keep them out of the trash, and to make some extra money doing it.

yeah well I hate litterers too, not just people who throw away cans...

Not only are you throwing away the cans, but you can make money. You can actually make a nice supplement to your income by recycling cans. Well if you have a good recycling enter nearby, you would make that money. Therefore, we tend to have bags of cans saved, that are not thrown away, that we haul off to the recycle center. I think that every cent helps and collecting cans. Still throwing away cans is pretty much throwing away money. You might as well open up your wallet and dump some cash in the trash while you're at it. People tend to be lazy or they think that it is not worth their time. If they don't need the money, they can save it for later and you might be able to use that money if an emergency comes up. Yet, people have a lack of foresight a lot of the times.

I save aluminiun can for extra spending money or to put in my saving can of change.

You need a 20 tonne truckload in order to sell them. That is after you have sorted them (taking out the steel cans), washed, crushed and bailed them. THEN, you can make some serious money. Or you could just put the can in the trash! Let your local authority do the recycling for you!

Most people have better ways to spend their time and better ways to make more money. But enjoy your dumpster diving.