Getting "Rid Of" your Aluminum Cans

[two_bit_score]

We haven't broken a turntable yet but fear it will happen someday. Large, unwieldy and slippery. With all the convenience that a Microwave offers, I have never found the perfect one. I want one with a lighted touchpad, a quiet easy close door, a "dinger" that can be turned down and a clock that doesn't blink, blink, blink every time the power bumps. Also, a 30 second and one minute button to warm my coffee depending on how much is in my cup. I would gladly pay extra for these features.

I like all those improvement suggestions. Every microwave we have had that I can recall has or had the 30 second and 1 minute settings though. They sure are handy. I could probably get by with a microwave that only had those two as long as if you push them more than once the time keeps going up.

 

[ultrarunner]

The old one in the cabin only has a dial timer...

The one in my service truck simple push button...

Must be dependable... Mom's is 1978 GE over stove unit... none have turn table

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Have come darn close. Cats have busted a pile of dishes lately though. Ceramic tile on floor is terrible and unforgiving!

You must not remember kitchen carpet. I was unloading a bag of groceries; picked up a quart of cooking oil by the cap; it came off and the bottle broke when it hit the floor. Oh well, it was time to remodel any way.

 

[Buggs67]

That's a bargain... if the lid on a 20gallon Waste Management curbside tote isn't fully closed due to excess garbage the minimum extra charge is $26.52 and for that a glossy time stamped picture...

Its a real problem because by statute property owners are direct billed for compulserary disposal services.

That's life in the big city. Where I moved from garbage was included in property taxes. It burned me up when I put out one grocery size bag a week and I see people with 3-5 trash cans out. And then on recycle day they put nothing out.

We used to have a volunteer civic assn that would accept a pickup load of recycle for $8. I take my recycle there every month but since Covid they've suspended operations. I'm a firm believer in recycle/reuse/reduce. People say "Throw it away" but there is no "away". All that garbage ends up in a landfill. (there is a company two counties over that uses a high-teck incinerator for garbage and produces electricity).

As far as shooting the bottles I don't leave any on the ground. Most is contained in the box and the little that ends on the ground is contained on cardboard. This is on my hard pack parking area. I'm mindful of my dogs feet. The only other critters we see much of is deer. Literally herds of them as my neighbors feed them. 10-12 is normal and I've seen as many as 25 following his cart. Oddly enough they say there are bears hereabout but in 3 years here I've never seen one. In NJ I'd see them every week strolling around the neighbor hood or in the yard.

 

[Buggs67]

I like all those improvement suggestions. Every microwave we have had that I can recall has or had the 30 second and 1 minute settings though. They sure are handy. I could probably get by with a microwave that only had those two as long as if you push them more than once the time keeps going up.

We just recently replaced ours. I think it's an LG and it has a 30 sec button that you can push as many times as as you like, and even add 30 sec while it's working. And another button that does 10 sec intervals. It's got all these automatic reheat/cook functions but we don't use them. Except the defrost-by-weight function.

And as for turntables; I've saved them from the other micros that died. and had cause to reuse them.

 

[Jstpssng]

On the original topic... as I mentioned previously we have deposits on most containers. For what ever reason the redemption centers have been out straight, the one I use has had to start closing one day per week to get caught up. It's also can be a great fundraiser... every place that I go I see utility trailers with signs accepting donations for various non profits. Today I drove past a place with a 12' utility trailer out front which was overflowing with cans. I decided that was a good place to leave another bag of empties.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

At the most serious end of the spectrum, whether you are found guilty of murder, whether you did it or not, often boils down to how much you can afford on legal talent.

Yep... Think O.J.

 

[Jim Nelson]

When we lived in my little home town in Co. everyone had ash pits in their back yard or alleyway and burned their trash in those. When they got full we would load the remains into our own or a borrowed pickup truck and haul it to the town dump. Large items were hauled directly to the dump. There were a couple of guys that hired out to haul trash but usually had a second job to get by. When organized trash pick up started it was part of the water and sewer bill which was $25 per month.There were no aluminum cans back then, everything was in glass bottles with a deposit or "tin" cans that went in the trash.
When we moved to Ca. in '86 and found that trash service was granted to the highest bidder who ended up with a monopoly on the area of service. The cost was also over double what we were used to and monthly rather than quarterly. If you don't pay your trash bill it is added to your property taxes. Now it is separated into trash, recycle, and green waste all of which must be separated into the respective bins.

 

[ultrarunner]

Yes... mandatory garbage service with unpaid bill paid by city resulting in tax lien.

Yes... property can be lost for garbage non-payment to Waste Management.

20 gallon weekly curbside $60 a month.

The kicker is lid not fully closed results in additional $43 overage fee per occurence and yes... Garbage Inspectors Inspect.

 

[Fuddy1952]

I had a friend (rip) years ago who was always playing pranks. His Dad had a small used car lot in the city where they had garbage collection. He sets a 55 gallon barrel out by the road for pickup, fills it with bricks, rocks, heavy car parts, etc, then pours Quickrete cement over it up close to top...lays a few drink cans and paper on top.
He spends the night in office, early next morning he's awakened by garbage truck. This big husky guy jumps off, grabs barrel, yanks and throws his back out. He said he staggers around for a bit, gets on truck.
The barrel sits there a few days, so friend calls city dump complaining about not picking up trash. Spends night in office again. Next morning trash truck pulls up. Behind it is a truck with a forklift on a trailer which they unload. It lifts it, setting it in garbage truck, they load up, drive away.

 

[ultrarunner]

No weight limit per container?

 

[Grumpycat]

The coolest way I've seen on the internet to get rid of aluminum cans was done by this guy who melted them in a kiln then poured in fire ant mounds. Filled the passages of some massive fire ant hills creating an aluminum tree.

Another guy was doing something similar but put lightning rods out in fields and somehow got lightning to dig holes he filled with molten aluminum.

 

[two_bit_score]

No weight limit per container?

It’s surprising they didn’t but I bet they did after that.

 

[beowulf]

The wife had to go to town today so she took our recycling (aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and glass bottles). Total she received was $53.08. $1.65 per lb for aluminum (had 18.6 lbs), $1.10 per lb. for the plastic bottles (had 10.1 lbs.) and 10 cents per pound for 91 lbs of glass. It won't make you rich but better than not having it. She said my share was only $9.46 because my glass beer and wine bottles were not worth much. Well, not when they are empty.

 

[Ford850]

$1.65 per lb for aluminum? :shocked: I've never seen it that high. It's at $0.35 here, and has been for months.

 

[Oaktree]

The wife had to go to town today so she took our recycling (aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and glass bottles). Total she received was $53.08. $1.65 per lb for aluminum (had 18.6 lbs), $1.10 per lb. for the plastic bottles (had 10.1 lbs.) and 10 cents per pound for 91 lbs of glass. It won't make you rich but better than not having it. She said my share was only $9.46 because my glass beer and wine bottles were not worth much.

$1.65 per lb for aluminum? :shocked: I've never seen it that high. It's at $0.35 here, and has been for months.

Were those deposit cans, and you just got the deposit back? My experiences are closer to Ford850's, low-to-mid 30s.

 

[beowulf]

Were those deposit cans, and you just got the deposit back?

No, just a garbage and trash collection business - you can take trash in there for a fee - by weight or pick up load - they do not charge anything if you are dropping off metal. And a part of their facility is set up to take aluminum cans, plastic bottles and glass bottles. We bring it in in large garbage bags, they dump those into large bins, weigh those and pay you in cash - very efficient. You have to separate the brown/green glass from clear glass though. We never make a special trip but it is on the way to town so if we are going anyway and have a stash of cans we will drop them off.

 

[user.69169]

Yes... mandatory garbage service with unpaid bill paid by city resulting in tax lien.

Yes... property can be lost for garbage non-payment to Waste Management.

20 gallon weekly curbside $60 a month.

The kicker is lid not fully closed results in additional $43 overage fee per occurence and yes... Garbage Inspectors Inspect.

But can you match NY City? Dey got gun carryin garbage police riding around making sure dat garbage stays widin de law.

Bud lives in a village here where de village picks up garbage. Truck's got a scale & recorder on it so he gets billed for each pound of trash dey take away. All his heavy trash goes back to bin outside supermarket when he shops, figures he paid once for packaging he ain't payin a second time to be rid of it.

 

[Jim Nelson]

Were those deposit cans, and you just got the deposit back? My experiences are closer to Ford850's, low-to-mid 30s.

I live in So. Cal. and about a month ago took in my accumulation of aluminum cans and got $1.65 per lb.
This includes what they call CRV [ Ca. redemption value] that you have to pay when you buy the stuff. If you don't recycle they just keep the money and throw it away on some goofy program. If you take in cans not stamped C.R.V. then the price is reduced to whatever scrap aluminum is which is closer to what you get. People I know in other parts of the country don't even bother to save the cans.

 

[aczlan]

I guess I’m old fashioned. I wouldn’t call them taking the firewood sized logs theft in that case because they were left there to be picked up and hauled off by the city. But, the people who took them did not know that for certain. They assumed that they were “free for the taking” only because they were at the curb.

They did not know for certain that those logs had not been purchased by someone who was coming to pick them up later. The pile did not have a sign or anything that indicated “Free” on it.

Again, old fashioned, but I wouldn’t get anything out of someone else’s yard unless I knew for certain it was free and there for anyone to take.

Now my wife, If she sees something by the curb on trash day, she will get it if she thinks it’s useful. That’s on trash day, by the trash can.

Around here if it's by the side of the road without a sign on it, it's free.
Gotten a lot of stuff that way, gotten rid of a lot of stuff that way too.

Aaron Z