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It its a 20x differential surely there would be demand to purchase it from the end user instead of fining them for not sorting properly?
by calvinmorrison 3y ago
It its a 20x differential surely there would be demand to purchase it from the end user instead of fining them for not sorting properly?
- its-summertime 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container-deposit_legislation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container-deposit_legislation
- gizmo686 3y agoThere is. A quick Google search found several companies near me who will by scrap metal off of me. The problem is that a pound of aluminum goes for about $0.45. That does not come close for paying for a weekly curbside pickup service, which is what most individuals use for recycling. Heck, they probably wouldn't even take an unsorted collection of "recyclables". The company I am looking at drops the price for unspecified "dirty" aluminum to $0.25 per pound.
- calvinmorrison 3y agoRight so its not worth doing. Simply your just distributing stolen time and labor to subsidize it .
- gizmo686 3y agoYou are paying for the curbside pickup anyway, so the marginal cost of recycling aluminum is small.
- dghlsakjg 3y agoI’ve never lived anywhere in North America where scrap merchants wouldn’t buy aluminum by the pound or steel by the ton.