Your Questions About Recycling

The Expert answers:

Wish there was a simple answer to this. Say a national uniform recycling deposit act!!!

The link below shows what states have deposits and how much they are. Most seem to go with $0.05, but Michigan is $0.10.

Most of the other states go by a per-pound rate that seems to be around $0.67 on average.

Be warned though — don’t try to drive a few thousand cans and bottles up to Michigan to get the deposit rate (as in the “Seinfeld” episode). Bottles being returned are now scanned to see if they came from the state. You could possible be fined for trying to “sneak” out off state bottles / cans in.

The Expert answers:

*Not that I know of, but for aluminum, you can call the three local salvage yards; Karco (Carbondale), T&T Recycling (Hurst), and Gary’s Metals (Carterville). Each will generally have slightly different prices, depending upon local competition and market values, which may fluctuate daily, weekly or monthly.

The Expert answers:

By weight, it would be the aluminum cans. It can go for over $1.00 a lb. Paper products have never brought that much in.
Exception: if there was a deposit paid on a plastic bottle ( 5 cents in some areas) you would get alot more be recycling that if you got the deposit back, or if the deposit was figured into the price per pound at the recycling center.
At one time newspapers paid like 10cents per foot stacked (years ago- dont know about now)
Yup, i’d go with the aluminum. (but still recycle all you could)GL

The Expert answers:

I used to work for a recycler and it is best to shop around.
Go to www.kitco.com and you can see the latest prices paid by the big dealers. Don’t expect the same. Lol

The Expert answers:

They pay by the pound, so you will have to call around and see what they are pricing at this time.they change prices all the time due to the markets and what they can (the recyclers) get for the
cans.

The Expert answers:

Cans are $0.05 each and plastic bottles (2 liter sodas) are $0.10 each.
Hope this helps!

The Expert answers:

That is a little above the average market price for loose Used Beverage Cans (UBC). Today’s spot was $0.29. Since there are about 33 cans at $0.05 a can in California, the equaling CA+ spot price would be $1.94.

The Expert answers:

If there is an local recyclers you can call them and tell them whtat you have .There are also different grades of aluminum that means there are different prices .

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You are not going to pay for a tip at to the cab driver to the wedding with the recycle money. I bought a brand new one for my Corvette for less than $100.
Little late to be thinking about paying for a wedding with recycle money.