Posted: 10/4/2004 11:30:25 PM EDT
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Anyone else save aluminum cans? I got a pile of cans and Im wonder why Im even saving these things. Im going to get enough to fill up the trunk drive them to the place and get maybe enough money to but a box of cheap ammo. |
| I save the aluminum cans to teach my 8 year old son on how to make money. Right now here in Kali-fornia(for those cans marked CA) we are getting a bunch of money per pound for recylcing cans. My son is so proud of the money he earns recycling cans that he going to buy the Halo2 video game. |
Wow I think its 30-40cent a pound here, what is it there? |
I was going to guesss that here in Kali-fornia we're getting something like $1.50/lb, but then we have a tax of something like $0.02 per can. |
| Here in Kali-fornia, we can get paid on a per container or per pound. I figured that we are probably getting the short-shriff on the per pound thing, because the state affixes the tax on a per container basis, but if you have a small bottle when you turn it in, the state pockets the difference. |
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Last time I took my cans in, I got $.42/lb. I went straight down to the store and bought a big Angus Ribeye, a huge Idaho potato, some cheese, and sour cream. That night I had a nice mid-rare, Dales-marinated steak and an oven-baked potato replete with butter, sour cream and cheese. Yummy 
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