Can you sell aluminum?

Hi All,

Had a thought the other day while putting some tins in the recycling boxes, is it possible to turn these tins etc... into cash?

While I understand you would need quite a bit of it to make any money, but is it possible?

Are we just recycling stuff and loosing out on a potential (all be it small) money earner?

Cheers,

Swain90

Yes, although these days it'll hardly be worth the effort with the price of scrap Alu but years ago it was worth the effort.

Yes, that's what the Tinkers(no ill respect) did/do, try your local scrap merchant, but as you said if small amounts, then only expect pennies.

Aluminium £0.25 – £1.50 / kg as per Google.

Not sure how much you have but you'd need a lot for it to be worthwhile.

ALUMINIUM

I'd love to see a historic graph for Alu price. Used to be a penny a can down tesco, Im not sure if they stopped that or not
I think this relates to the car industry or just industry in general. The price of Iron this year has increased very well but not commodities overall. If you get a price squeeze then Alu market will return as it is very expensive to refine but easy to recycle as scrap
Alcoa increased 50% this year so who knows

Dis86 said:

ALUMINIUM

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You say tomato I say tomato.

Dis86 said:

ALUMINIUM

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#mybad

jsmoke said:

You say tomato I say tomato.

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I say
Allyumminumb

In years to come we'll be "mining" rubbish dumps for the stuff we've thrown away.

My particular favorite recycling scheme at the moment is this clever idea

http://www.curbed.com/2016/8/1/12335500/recycled-plastic-bricks-byfusion-replast-ocean-trash

HEADRAT

silversurfer said:

I say
Allyumminumb

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I say Allyuardumb!

Speaking of dumb, we occasionally find the charred remains of thieves who break into our sites and railway accesses to steal the copper cabling and end up getting 33,000v up their backsides.
These people are risking their lives for a mere £70 a ton...

ttaskmaster said:

end up getting 33,000v up their backsides.

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Darwin Awards to these people

ttaskmaster said:

I say Allyuardumb!

Speaking of dumb, we occasionally find the charred remains of thieves who break into our sites and railway accesses to steal the copper cabling and end up getting 33,000v up their backsides.
These people are risking their lives for a mere £70 a ton...

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Gotta remove em somehow.

ttaskmaster said:

I say Allyuardumb!

Speaking of dumb, we occasionally find the charred remains of thieves who break into our sites and railway accesses to steal the copper cabling and end up getting 33,000v up their backsides.
These people are risking their lives for a mere £70 a ton...

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Copper is over 2 grand a ton mate

I'll buy a few tonnes of copper for £70 per if you're offering?

Mate.

NvidiaDan said:

Copper is over 2 grand a ton mate

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Not used scrap it ain't!

Tell you what, I'm talking crap! It really is!

It was worth about 2k when I was down the scrappy just last month and ally is about £550 a ton. It's mild steel that's about £70 a ton.

I imagine any scrap merchant buying cabling from a ***** type aint paying close to 2k a ton .

ttaskmaster said:

I say Allyuardumb!

Speaking of dumb, we occasionally find the charred remains of thieves who break into our sites and railway accesses to steal the copper cabling and end up getting 33,000v up their backsides.
These people are risking their lives for a mere £70 a ton...

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The thing is, they know its dangerous. They are bridging the gaps with household electrical cables before they make the cut and many of them are succeeding. So they're not entirely stupid, they're just gambling their lives. Gotta give them credit for that.