Where do you send in cans you find on the street for money?

Question

Where do you send in cans you find on the street for money?

Answer 1

There should be a recycling plant in your area that pays for aluminum (which is what these cans would be made of), copper, and other metals.

Try searching google for "your city recycling plant". You should find an address, phone number, and maybe even a website with current prices.

Answer 2

Heres a good website http://www.earth911.org/

just enter your zip code and click on reuse & recycling services and you can find places where they accept cans, auto related items and much more.

Answer 3

Collect enough aluminum cans, and take them to a metal recycling plant. They say aluminum causes alzimers (forgetting things) in your older years - good idea to stop drinking from cans and stop eating stuff in cans. Go fresh or frozen and pop will kill you anyways. Quit it!

Answer 4

Go to this website to find a local recycling center where you live.

www.bottlesandcans.com

Here's a nice tidbit of info from that site too:

"RECYCLING MAKES MORE SENSE THAN EVER.

You'd have a hard time finding a reason why NOT to recycle bottles and cans. After all, if you throw them away, it's a waste of natural resources, a waste of energy and a waste of money. An aluminum can, for example, can sit in a landfill taking decades to decompose, or it can be recycled and be back on the shelf in about 90 days, thereby:

    * Reducing the need for virgin bauxite ore

    * Saving enough energy to run a television for almost three hours

    * Putting cash in the pocket of the person who took it to the recycling center"

Answer 5

find a scrap metal recycling place in your area and see if they pay for aluminum cans.  i always bring my pop cans into a scrap metal recycling place, in fact i just did it to day.  i brought in 16 lbs. of cans and i got $13.92, just for bringing in my cans.  what an incentive to recycle.

Answer 6

You can always look around the area of a supermarket. For instance, There is a Ralphs supermarket in my neighborhood and behind them is a recycling center.

Answer 7

just recycle them for free.

nice name btw.

Answer 8

Always recycle the cans you find on the street.  I know in my town, there is a company where you take the cans to for this.  

Here is some interesting information I found out about recycling aluminum:

"Americans earn about $1 billion a year recycling aluminum cans. A used aluminum can returned to a recycling center is worth about a penny to consumer recyclers."

"Used aluminum cans are recycled and returned to a store shelf as a new can in as few as 60 days. That means a consumer could purchase basically the same recycled aluminum can from a retailer's shelf nearly every 9 weeks or 6 times a year."

"Recycling diverted 1.7 billion pounds from landfills."