Do You Collect Aluminium Can For Extra Cash?

I don't collect the cans and bottles when I am finished as we place it in a special dumpster that the poor go through and they can take the few cents from our cans. There is no doubt that one can earn money recycling and some earn a lot more than others but for me its not something I would want to do or have a need to do really. I am happy the poor are collecting and earning some form of money and also helping to keep our city cleaner.

In Indonesia, most of drinking cans was from plastict (sorry if I mis type).And the price are not too high rather then aluminium. I never do that, but couple years ago my country draw the IDR100 money.It was make from silver and the autentic values was more then that. Many people in here doing that, pick whatever who have values.We call them as "PEMULUNG", in Jakarta there are thousands of them.

I use to collect them, but I no longer have access to enough cans to make any real money. At one time I would collect them just to clean up the streets but I don't have the time to do that anymore. There are lots of people who still do it and make decent money. I don't think they let their pride stop them and since now there are so many people who are trying to clean up the planet, if you are seen picking up cans it does not make you look bad or desperate.

It is very hard to say. Most of the people will star and sound strange to you if you are discovered in collecting those cans. In fact, aluminum cans collection is to protect our living environment. No one should discriminate those collectors. If you are organizing a group of people with uniform and well protected clothes and tools to start collecting all of those recyclable material at certain spot, then the impression to other people might be much more better. Certainly, you need to cover the expenses in collecting those cans. ha! ha! ha! You are helping to protect the environment for us.

I remember doing this when I was younger and my cousins doing this also. They would do it so they could pay for their Six Flags tickets the following year. It really made them work at it and save the enviroment at the same time. As of today yes I do still recycle my cans, It seems that this is the only thing they do recycle because of the money not the enviroment. I live in a small town.

My mother and I scrap metal when money is tight. Aluminum cans go for fifty six cents a pound, so we save out cans, but we normally go for copper since it goes up to 2.75 a pound. We go through dumpsters and such at auto stores, for steel/aluminum parts or cans, but I wouldn't say we're poor, just trying to get extra money. I don't feel as though it hurts my pride, though scrapping isn't easy. It's recycling, which is good for the environment.

Yes, I collect them because I can not only earn extra money, but also it is good for the environment. But I just collect the aluminum cans, newspaper, plastic bottles etc. from my home. I don't collect them in public because it will be another issue if I do so. And yes I will be ashamed if I collect them in public because this is not my job and I can't earn like that. I love China

When my ex and I had just graduated from high school and were working and wanting to make a little extra money we went around can collecting. We would walk all over and find cans then when my car was fully loaded we would return them. We made about $50 a week doing it. Sometimes it was a disgusting job though. Now I just save the cans that we drink and thats it I dont go along the side of the road or in dumpsters picking out cans anymore lol.

No, but it's a good thing to do when you have the opportunity.

Yes we collect cans all year than in June we cash them in and that is the kids vaction spending money. We also collect metals all year long as well. The kids get to pick where they go for vacation and they spend there money on what they want as far as stuff from where they went. It is alot of fun. We take walks and pick up cans in our neighbor hood. There are a couple house that put the cans out for us once a week. We get our exercise and have fun doing it.

Yes, I think we all should recycle aluminum cans because it saves valuable resources, space in the landfills and also earns us some extra cash. Sure it takes a while to make any money, but every bit counts! I have a giant box with plastic inside it that I just chunk empty cans into. While I don't go actively looking for cans or trolling the roads in a search for them, I do pick them up whenever I see them and put them in the bed of my truck for later. Some people may be ashamed to do this themselves but that is just vanity and pride. Why should we be ashamed to better the planet and do the right thing? I want to start a trend where you don't have to be perceived as a homeless person just for reaching down and picking up a can!

I've been into this for most of my life. Down here in South Australia they pay really well for drink containers (plastic & glass bottles, cans & cardboard drink containers). There are many recycling centres here, all of which pay ten cents per drink container! Scrap metal pays well at the moment too. Top grade copper is sold in the same places for six dollars a kilograms & other metals like brass, aluminium & plastic coated wire also pay well. Batteries & electric motors are also good money. I have easily made a very cool $200+ per month this way. It certainly beats all the regular money I've ever made online! There's no need to bring one's pride down to any extremes like you say, just work in the right industry!

Collecting aluminum cans won't even bring my pride down but bring it up, coz i'll be doing something for the environment if I do. I'm not doing it though coz there's not much cans here to collect, but given I chance, i won't mind what other people might say if I do. This reminded me of what I did 10 years ago. There was a rumor going on in our town that if you shred foils from snacks you can sell it and a group of people are buying it at a good price. For two months I spent all day shredding snack foils so i could earn money but nobody came to collect them.

I used to collect aluminium can when I was in secondary school. Actually at first I thought it was shameful to collect aluminum cans from streets, gardens, and benches which was thought to be a humble act that used to be done by the extremely poor people, but my grandfather (not blood-related) who was living a positively rich life, also collect aluminum cans anytime he saw one on the roadside he was passing by and would put it into his big dark plastic bag that he was taking with him as a habbit. What's more, he would ask me to collect the cans whenever he saw one far away. I was unwilling to do it but dare not resist. Actually, one empty bottle can only get him paid 0.1 yuan but he insisted doing it, perhaps it was part of his virtue and also, he was living an austere life though his kids were very generous to him. Now after all those years, I still have such things in mind and if you ask me to collect aluminum cans now, I dare say that I will. 23 years' old now, and can support myself now, the earnings from collecting cans may not even pay my everyday breakfast, yet I won't resist doing it, for it is not just the money that earns, but that I don't care what others think of me, I'll just do correct things and do things to my heart. waazula.com

I never thought about that . If i would make $50 / day , just from colecting cans, i would not work anymore, because the salary is less than that amount . i would need to collect at least 1000 cans to make that amount of cash daily . From where so much ? Cans are not so heavy and you need a lot of them to make some KG of aluminium . I don`t know if it worth it . If you think that you can collect that number of cans, then you should start this , no ?

Here in the US many people also do this. I did this several times for my children who collected them and used the extra money for the monthly book club at school.

We no longer seem to have centers that will pay for cans, at least not near where I live. I know that up near Chicago, there are still centers that take all scrap metal. When I was in college, I knew where a center was, and would collect cans from the commons. When my parents came to visit, we would load up the trunk and drive it to the facility. I would normally get about 20.00 each time, and could have done a bunch more, but did not have the room to stash them in my dorm room.

I use to, actually! But the place was riddled with broken glass on the floor so we couldn't take the car anymore. I mean, going to get 17 dollars would cost us 100 dollars in getting a new tire. But if the place was not glass-filled I would TOTALLY still do it!

I actually do not sell the aluminum I sell bottles and cans for 5 cents a piece at my local bottle and can collector