How much money is one recycled can worth? and a 16oz plastic water bottle?

Question

I want to recycle but don't know how much its worth to recycle.

How much money is one....

2 liters plastic soda bottle?

16oz plastic water bottle?

12oz aluminum soda can?

1lb of used paper?

All in Garden Grove-Orange County, California

Answer 1

try http://www.scrapmetalpricesandauctions.c... for current scrap can values

Answer 2

There are 18 clean, dry 12 oz. aluminum cans per pound.   How  much is aluminum going for there?

Answer 3

2 liter is worth 10 cents for the deposit

16 oz bottle is worth 5 cents for the deposit

12 oz aluminum is worth 5 cents for the deposit

1 lb of paper is worth fractions of a penny

Q: Is paper worth any money when you recycle it?

A: There are many different kinds of paper, and the value of recycled paper changes all the time.

Sometimes it is very lucrative to recycle old corrugated containers (cardboard boxes) and there is

almost always a good market for it. ($50-$100 per ton) Newspaper is a different story and the price paid

ranges from $0 to $30/ton (that is after collection and processing.) Since it may cost $50 a ton to collect

and process newspaper, some people may say it is not worth it if you can only sell it for $25 per ton.

HOWEVER, throwing it away is not free! It cost an average of $50 to collect and dispose of trash! If you

enter that into the equation, it costs less to recycle. Sometimes, solid waste managers or city officials

have a hard time accounting for these "avoided disposal costs", however. There are many other external

costs of waste that people don't always think about. These include long-term environmental harm from

landfills, cost of building new landfills (and lots of public opposition) wasted resources being buried in

landfills, wasted energy in the extraction of raw materials that could have been avoided through recycling,

and so on.