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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?


There 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.


Right so its not worth doing. Simply your just distributing stolen time and labor to subsidize it .


You are paying for the curbside pickup anyway, so the marginal cost of recycling aluminum is small.


I’ve never lived anywhere in North America where scrap merchants wouldn’t buy aluminum by the pound or steel by the ton.





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