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Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 5:24 pm
by hobo finds
old realcent link here http://realcent.forumco.com/topic.asp?T ... hichpage=1 goes back to Aug 2008!!!!! :thumbup:


In So. AZ. .55 a pound.

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:46 am
by wayne1956
Same in South Ft Worth area, .55 a pound

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:24 am
by aussamdad
Southern Harris County TX..same...$0.55 lb.

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 4:59 pm
by misteroman
.05 here in wny. how many cans are in a lb anyways? heard it was30. might start saving the non returnable ones.

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:11 am
by simplicitycounts
32 normal pop / beer cans. The monster / tea / red bull cans can throw it off a bit. MN seems to get 35 cents to 70 cents a pound depending on the season. 45 cents is pretty normal for me at the scrap yard.

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 2:25 pm
by MetalMan
....from the Aluminum Association (below), September 14, 2010, I assume "beverage" is a 12 oz can......I for one am hoarding aluminum cans (super-smashed for storage) for various reasons, partly because I believe I deserve more the 55 cents a pound and so I'll just do my duty to squeeze the supply.

• "Today’s beverage can weighs only 0.466 ounces, more than 15 % lighter than in 1993.
Through engineering and technology advancements, the can continues to become lighter while delivering the same serving size and using fewer resources—a goal of any container. There are 34.35 aluminum beverages to a pound."

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 2:31 pm
by GA-Silver
$.60 a lb in NW GA last week.

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 2:35 pm
by Corsair
$.40/lb in Eastern Missouri.

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 7:03 pm
by tyoon21
$0.40 / pound here in Orlando

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:28 am
by wildjo
$0.40 in central ohio.

I say "price fixing"!

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:42 pm
by maoguinn
.40lb in Lubbock, TX

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 4:27 pm
by GA-Silver
$.63 a lb today in NW GA

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 2:00 pm
by Rosco
.05 cents each in Oregon :)

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 2:02 pm
by Rosco
Corsair wrote:$.40/lb in Eastern Missouri.


Who is Harvey Dent ??

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 7:49 pm
by rickygee
Rosco wrote:
Corsair wrote:$.40/lb in Eastern Missouri.


Who is Harvey Dent ??


Who is John Galt?

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:46 pm
by TheJonasCollegeFund
The yard I use had posted their prices....cans $0.42 lb. Guess the pile gets bigger! Northwest Indiana....oopsie!

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:49 pm
by coinwolf
$0.50 lb. here in eastern NC

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 4:25 pm
by aussamdad
still 0.55 lb in southern harris County Texas....when will it reach 0.80?

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:41 pm
by MetalMan
My guess is not too long. If the Fed announces QE 2.0 in November and oil makes it way over $100, taking the whole commodity sector with it, who knows how high prices will go. The price of smelting aluminum will obviously become higher and if enough of us sit on our stash, that should do the trick. The question is when it breaks $.80, how much will that be worth after the incessant loss of USD purchasing power.

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 3:07 am
by dedemama
$0.60 lb in Minneapolis.

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:51 am
by HoardCopperByTheTon
1.75 lb in CA :mrgreen:

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 8:15 am
by MetalMan
wow, 1.75! how much extra "refundable" tax does a person pay in the Socialist Republic of Kalifornia for alum. beverages? It must be $.05 - $.10 per 12 oz can.

It would be worth it for me, even with the extra fuel costs, to carry some Al with me on my next vacation to the Republic.

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:17 pm
by hobo finds
.60 a pound in So. AZ.

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:08 pm
by aussamdad
other day..$0.60 lb....then at another place same day they were at .45 lb. Maybe I will save my cans for a trip to the republic also...calculate about 50,000 cans should make for a decent 5 day vay-cay. Actually I would rather go anywhere else than to the land of fruit and nuts.

Re: Going Rate for Aluminum Cans?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 3:00 pm
by thedude
Iowa - .05 per can/bottle.