Metal food cans

[savagewind]

My town has discontinued the recycling of cans. I thought that my town might start up again so I save them. When that hasn't happened, I looked online for another place to bring them but there isn't another place.

Now, I wonder if they are really useful for something or if they were being recycled just to be eliminated from the landfills.

Are food cans good for anything or should I put them with the rest of my garbage?

 

[Vinayaka]

Is there a metal recycler close by?

 

[savagewind]

Is there a metal recycler close by?

Like a place that takes old cars or building materials? Yes.

 

[savagewind]

OK, I'll call them, but, alas!

It all has to do with my REAL QUESTION.

 

[Vinayaka]

Like a place that takes old cars or building materials? Yes.

If you crunch them, they might take them. Aluminum in itself must have a price.

 

[savagewind]

OK, I'll call them, but, alas!

It all has to do with my REAL QUESTION.

I'm sorry, I really am! If the food cans are not USEFUL fro anything, they won't take them. I am not an idiot. Honest to God!

 

[savagewind]

If you crunch them, they might take them. Aluminum in itself must have a price.

OK. I shall call them but I do not have a cruncher. I have a hammer.

 

[Brickjectivity]

My town has discontinued the recycling of cans. I thought that my town might start up again so I save them. When that hasn't happened, I looked online for another place to bring them but there isn't another place.

Now, I wonder if they are really useful for something or if they were being recycled just to be eliminated from the landfills.

Are food cans good for anything or should I put them with the rest of my garbage?

They're metal with a thin plastic coating inside. I've tried to think of a use for them, too. What would be nice: a machine to flatten them and seem them together into sheets. It would make raggedy sheets made of pressed cans. It could be done by a team of college engineering students.

 

[savagewind]

They're metal with a thin plastic coating inside. I've tried to think of a use for them, too. What would be nice: a machine to flatten them and seem them together into sheets. It would make raggedy sheets made of pressed cans. It could be done by a team of college engineering students.

I love you!

 

[savagewind]

If you crunch them, they might take them. Aluminum in itself must have a price.

Thank you. I finally did a Google search for VEGETABLE CANS and it says, "Steel", and I am, steel! wow. I don't believe it.

I read a story about a World War where people collected the metal from a gum wrapper to donate to the war effort. Things had sure changed since then...

 

[Vinayaka]

Thank you. I finally did a Google search for VEGETABLE CANS and it says, "Steel", and I am, steel! wow. I don't believe it.

I read a story about a World War where people collected the metal from a gum wrapper to donate to the war effort. Things had sure changed since then...

Myself and a friend hauled a bunch of junk metal to a salvage place here. They sorted it, and half a van got about $20 Canadian.

 

[savagewind]

I wonder why towns that will take vegetable cans to recycle will not take other people's cans to recycle. Are they so worthless? Or, they don't have enough room?

 

[savagewind]

Myself and a friend hauled a bunch of junk metal to a salvage place here. They sorted it, and half a van got about $20 Canadian.

I wonder if there is a big difference between the metal that has some weight and the light-weight metal cans?

 

[Subduction Zone]

I wonder if there is a big difference between the metal that has some weight and the light-weight metal cans?

It could be the liner that is causing trouble. Pure metal is relatively easy to recycle. Adding plastic into the mix might make it unrecylcable in the U.S..

 

[savagewind]

It could be the liner that is causing trouble. Pure metal is relatively easy to recycle. Adding plastic into the mix might make it unrecylcable in the U.S..

That I knew about some town's recycling policy. They request a separation of things, but they end up in the same place anyway.

 

[Subduction Zone]

That I knew about some town's recycling policy. They request a separation of things, but they end up in the same place anyway.

It may seem crazy but I they may be thinking about the future. They have to get people to recycle correctly before they can have an organized recycling program. Sadly it sounds as if they may have given up in your town.

For example here we have to make sure that cans are clean of all food before recycling.

Empty, Clean and Dry: No Food or Liquids
We used to say that if there was a little bit of food left in a container, it was good enough to recycle. Now containers need to have no food or liquids in them. Give containers a good rinse and let them dry. Or if you can't get them clean, put them in the garbage.

Leftover food can create mold that can spread to other recyclables ruining them. Liquids can ruin the fiber in paper making it harder or unable to be recycled.

 

[Vinayaka]

I wonder if there is a big difference between the metal that has some weight and the light-weight metal cans?

They paid is by weight. That's why you should crush it as much as you can. We had some pipe, and other heavy stuff.

 

[Lyndon]

By the time you've thoroughly washed the can, you've wasted more water than you'll save in metal by recycling.

 

[Revoltingest]

By the time you've thoroughly washed the can, you've wasted more water than you'll save in metal by recycling.

An anti-recylcer, eh.
It takes very little water to clean a can.
But you should see what recycling looks like at
a scrap yard....mud & dirt all over...rusty metal.
It needn't be all that clean.

 

[Brickjectivity]

I love you!

Thanks! This internet thing though is a wall, and that's how it is. From the beginning my deal with the site is they don't know me, and my friends and family do not know I'm here. This is all....anonymous, so I can work through things without having anyone breathing down my neck about my thoughts.