Cheryl wrote:
> "Michael "Dog3"" > wrote in message
> . ..
>> "Dimitri" >
>> : in rec.food.cooking
>>
>>> 1. Simple he was waiting for the recycle value to go from 2 for 5
>>> cents to 5 cents each.
>>> 2. He just doubled his money.
>>> 3. The man is investing in commodities - Aluminum!
>>> 4. Idonnknnow!
>> I think #4 wins. If I was slightly more interested I'd look up how much a
>> single aluminum can brings.
>>
>
> I was picking up aluminum cans from the community to help fund raise for a
> local animal rescuer. The first haul she took to the scrap metal place was
> 94 pounds and she got about $35 US for it. Hardly made it worthwhile
> running around picking up cans, PLUS having to crush them, from those saving
> for us. That haul looks like it might bring in $100? At least enough to
> replenish some of the brew supply. ;-)
>

We save our aluminum cans for the Humane Society. DH is a volunteer
there. We save the pull tabs from the cans for a friend who collects
them for some charity in NM. We also bring them paper from the shredder.
They use it in cages.

I recycle newspaper, plastic grocery bags, magazines, computer paper,
plastic bottles and milk jugs and cardboard. I do not recycle steel cans
because it takes too much water to clean them up to recycle them.

I'd recycle glass, but there are no collectors here.


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Janet Wilder
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