Do any recycling centers in California pay for tin cans?

Question

FOR EXAMPLE THE CANS THAT CANNED FOODS COME IN

Answer 1

try www.earth911.org type in what you want to recycle and give them a location and they will give you the nearest facility.

In CA it is harder to find anything other than CRV recyclers. The waste managment companies are trying to get you to only use them as a recycling facility so they can maximize profits. Most only pull the most profitable items from the waste stream and bury the rest in the landfill.

In Placer county we have a multi million dollar state of the art automated MRF and we still only have a diversion rate of 40%. So the best way to recycle is to prevent the items entering the waste stream whenever possible.,

Answer 2

If they do, it wouldn't be much.  A tin can is really made of steel.  Newer cans are coated on the inside with a type of plastic to keep the acids of the foods from reacting with the steel.  Older cans used to be coated with tin for the same reason and thus the name tin can was adopted.  Tin is very expensive and unsuitable for making the can itself.

Answer 3

No! And they haven't used tin in cans for over 50 years.

Answer 4

I don't know about California, but we (Columbia, MO) can recycle steel food cans.  The city doesn't pay for them though - they sell them as scrap steel.

If you had a whole bunch of them (hundreds of pounds) you might be able to sell them to an auto salvage yard.

DK

Answer 5

none that I know of, the difference between tin and aluminum cans is that the tin cans will break down very quickly.