Getting "Rid Of" your Aluminum Cans

[ultrarunner]

No one gets penalized if the containers are returned. If not, then they loose their money based on how much it matters to them. Guessing, welfare people, would throw them out anyway. So, a wrinkle in that thinking, I guess.

Improper disposal such as placing in regular trash collection will trigger a fine for repeat offenders...

 

[MossRoad]

Improper disposal such as placing in regular trash collection will trigger a fine for repeat offenders...

Oh boy. I've read about the wheelie bin police in Europe. Didn't realize it was a thing here. Well, thinking about it, they use to refuse to take yard waste in the trash container here in town, but no fines that I know of.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I remember feeling no fond attraction for Germany, visiting their as a child, being told I couldn't take a bath or shower at certain times for fear of disturbing neighbors.

 

[goeduck]

There is no deposit here but I do take AL cans, glass bottles and paper to the free recycling (Same place takes yard waste, large metal, batteries, oil, antifreeze, TVs, cardboard etc.). Also they take garbage but that you have to pay for and you have to have garbage for a minimum $11 fee. They used to have no fee for recycling only but people dumped garbage in the recycles. Once they made people pay a min garbage fee people started dumping garbage in the garbage and recycles in the recycles. Go figure.

On the aluminum cans I stuff ~clean used aluminum foil in the can before crushing it. They do not take aluminum foil by itself.

 

[Frankenkubota]

What isn't fair? Same violation, same ticket, same fine... Please tell me you don't want to penalize the rich just because they are rich...

No, i'm rich, why would i do that.

If a penalty is supposed to hurt, then make it hurt. My brother makes big big bucks, if he gets a ticket for $200 it's absolutely meaningless.

If a blue collar guy making wages gets that same ticket the penalty is so so much more harsh. Different penalty, same offense.

If folks don't understand, or do understand and don't agree so be it.

But, if you think we have a fair and equal civil.....or criminal legal system, then we disagree again. Some one said Patty's conviction was reduced then dropped, gimme a break!

 

[Oaktree]

On the aluminum cans I stuff ~clean used aluminum foil in the can before crushing it. They do not take aluminum foil by itself.

From what I understand there are different grades/types of aluminum and they shouldn't be mixed. Beverage can stock is a grade by itself, somehow different than foil, pie pans, cat food/sardine cans, old license plates, etc. At our transfer station there are separate bins for cans and another for other types.

Ditto for plastics...apparently the type 1 plastic used in screw-top bottles & jars is somehow different than the type 1 boxes deli items, hardware, etc. are packaged in. At the very least the company that takes the recyclables from our town won't accept it if they're mixed.

Unfortunately, the margin on recycled materials is very small.

 

[NorTracNY]

:mur: I've seen others use this emoji. The talk of penalizing someone for the same "offense" based upon how much money that have has me doing it. I'm dumbfounded at the thought process or lack thereof. The HUGE number of insane examples of REAL life just has me at a complete disconnect. Maybe it's from my personal experiences with government agencies which are suppose to serve us, government agencies which purchase products, the court system, reading the local news, knowing people who "work the system", knowing that people have difference of opinion and have ZERO tolerance, working for a job with an auto union, and dealing closely with lawyers. Argh, brain hurts too much.

 

[Industrial Toys]

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.

On the other side of the penalty coin, I also don't wish for more beurocrats, to administer any more systems and departments.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Most Iowa stores have had a "hold" on taking back cans for the deposit $, since March. They're blaming COVID. Can't crush them. Storing them now has become an "issue"... Stinky.

That's weird. The recycle machines here crush both the cans and plastic bottles as they are scanned. Only the glass goes into a bin, everything else gets mashed into a pallet tote. Feeding the machine does the count once. Nobody is going to count it twice.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Some one said Patty's conviction was reduced then dropped, gimme a break!

Patty was brainwashed. They kept her in a dark closet and fed her LSD, then took turns indoctrinating her. By the time she saw the light of day again, she was turned.

 

[3Ts]

I have heard of folks melting down the aluminum cans and making ingots, but is the type of aluminum alloy in the cans any good for casting? What would one do with aluminum ingots?

 

[Frankenkubota]

yea, that's right, i remember when i told the judge, your honor, i was brainwashed and my friends made me take all that LSD.

Honestly, i was brainwashed, by tv and govt education, or lack there of. As far as the LSD goes....my friends made me take it.

I lived in oregon for quite a while and i must say, many people there tend to look at things very differently than i do.

best wishes to you and patty hearst, an american hero.

 

[forgeblast]

I have heard of folks melting down the aluminum cans and making ingots, but is the type of aluminum alloy in the cans any good for casting? What would one do with aluminum ingots?

You can do aluminum vaporization casting. make a styrofoam mold, bury it in general purpose sand and make sure you have a sprue and then pour right on top. the aluminum will vaporize the Styrofoam and fill the void.

 

[Frankenkubota]

sounds like lost wax. saw someone on tv pouring molten aluminum down ant hills. amazing results, lots of digging.

 

[forgeblast]

The only difference is you do not have to burn out the wax, you pour right on into the styrofoam (aka the wax in lost wax), and your good to go. Just watch the fumes they can be nasty.
I saw on nova the ant hill castings. Really cool things. I thought it would be awesome to have a light fixture like it.

 

[user.69169]

Sort of looks like how to already known, why ain't bein done is probably a matter of right guy getting proper donation.
Looks like everything from car to plastic & glass bottles got another life like aluminum cans.
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Not sure what language dat announcer fellow talkin.

Seems like Milwaukee still makin and sellin Milorganite too, and Penn Power is makin electric from Allentown sewer plant.

 

[two_bit_score]

We have recycling as part of our regular trash service. We have a large trash can and a small bin for recycling. They are both picked up every week.

We seldom fill the trash can completely full but the recycling is always over flowing. Can稚 get a bigger recycling bin.

At our other place in addition to trash, no recycling, they pick up limbs about every two weeks.



Here is a pic of what they picked up a couple weeks ago.

 

[goeduck]

We have recycling as part of our regular trash service. We have a large trash can and a small bin for recycling. They are both picked up every week.

We seldom fill the trash can completely full but the recycling is always over flowing. Can稚 get a bigger recycling bin.

At our other place in addition to trash, no recycling, they pick up limbs about every two weeKs

Here is a pic of what they picked up a couple weeks ago.

Up here a firewood scrounger would take much of that off your hands

 

[ultrarunner]

In the SF Bay Area most of the tree guys give wood away. With the ban on wood burning in new homes and no burn ordinances even oak has almost no value

It wasn't always so as back in the 70's and 80's guys would line up asking to haul away storm fall oaks on the property.

We also had scavengers including those that would steal aluminum window frames from vacant homes... it happened to me.

 

[two_bit_score]

Up here a firewood scrounger would take much of that off your hands

Nobody was much interested in it.