I Found A Way Of Turning Aluminum Into Silver!

Wish that the government in Canada didn't successfully trick everyone into recycling their soda cans for free. If they had places here that cans could be cashed in then I would.

Their are many ways to scrap, I was picking up aluminum storm doors and windows for awhile, garbage day.. When the contractors were doing the wiring for street lights, yep, right behind them picking up the copper they throw on the ground. Old computer parts are worth considerable more than the newer stuff, trick is getting dibs on all this stuff people are throwing out, we've got quite a few more junkers here in the city than I've ever seen before, but with metals up significantly from where they were not to many years ago, I can see why. Still, for all the scrapping I did, the old catalytic convertor I found alongside the road was like hitting the jackpot.

As an recycling initiative in South Australia the government has recycling depots where you can take back any aluminum cans, plastic bottles and glass bottles. You get 10c per can/bottle and it adds up very quickly.

The problem with this is some homeless people make their living from collecting bottles from public bins... not so nice.

Where I live, the city depends upon the money from recycled cans to defray the cost of garbage collection so I give them all my cans. I hate the ants they attract anyway.

However, our local recycling center takes old electronics, circuit boards, power cords (you don't have to strip them), and pretty much anything else. I keep 5 gallon bucket in the basement for 'clean' recyclable metal.

Our city garbage collectors wanted $20 to haul away our old stove. My husband took it to the recycle center and we got $5. It was a bit more work but it got recycled which is better than going to the landfill.

Ed_B Thanks, but no soda cans here -- cat food cans. They are ... well, they had some sort of meat in them and the sooner they are hauled away the better.

We really don't buy much canned food. It would take forever to collect a pound.




Sugar: no
Calories: yes - been underweight just about my whole life

Were I live they pay ~$0.40/lbs for cans.

I agree that a crusher would be key for storage. Manual or hydraulic.

Your going to need a lot of cans, so might I suggest investing in your own recycling facilities.
Get the type with a lock, it's about all you can do.
Anyhow I am sure there are lot's of places that would appreciate the disposal facilities. Parks, playgrounds, beerball diamonds, at work. Maybe even a restaurant or two. You may even have people on your street that produce a few lbs of Al per week.

If you had a dozen or so "blue bins" going in good locations, you'll be up to your eyeballs in cans toot sweet.

Nice thing is, people are giving you the Al cans, so there is no legal issue.
The "city" is not entitled to peoples garbage, as far as I know anyways.

If you think your city "needs" the cans to "defer" the cost of operations, they are doing it wrong.
There is big money in garbage/recycling, huge money.
Probably the wealthiest guy in town here is the "garbage man". Not only do his trucks do all of the cities collecting, he used to take garbage for free. Anything.
So when you drive to the dump, you could pay and sort yourself, or go to this guy and dump anything you want in one pile, inside a building, for free. They are happy to sort it out themselves. Then they sell it.

They recycle everything, except for what goes in the "city" trucks, that has to go in our beautiful waterfront landfill. @ an additional cost of $2.50 per bag, in addition to our taxes. Only in Orillia.

OK, my mistake. Beer and soft drink cans are the most common.



Understood. There are breeds of ant that love grease and fat, so cat or dog food would appeal to them. These cans can still be rinsed with soapy water, though, and that will reduce ant interest too. They do not like the taste of soap.



Then you are a relatively rare individual! I too was underweight most of my life but that changed at about age 40. At age 22 I weighed 164 lbs, which at 6'3" tall was pretty thin. Of course, that was about 40 years and 80 lbs. ago! lol

Indeed so, Libertad. Back in those days, a quarter was real money and some nice things could be bought with it... such as a movie ticket, an ice cream soda at the fountain, admission to the skating rink, a loaf of bread, two comic books, a big juicy hamburger, a gallon of gasoline, etc. These days, a quarter doesn't buy much. Of course an early 1960s quarter contained 0.1808 oz. of silver. At today's silver price of $28 per oz., that is about $5 worth.