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Do you recycle aluminum cans or throw them away?
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:40 am
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:40 am
The junk/recycling yard is at least a 25 mile round trip total from where I live. So I feel like I’m losing money by taking a bag of cans there. And Aluminum prices are super cheap.
Do you guys take them or just throw them away?
Do you guys take them or just throw them away?
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Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:43 am to JoeyP239
I put them in the recycle bin that the garbage men pick up every other week.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:43 am to JoeyP239
Pretty much all recycling has been shown to be a sham, they just trash most or all your shite and skim gov't money while doing it.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:43 am to JoeyP239
Where I live, recycling is largely a farce. It just goes and sits in a separate part of the same landfill as everything else 
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:43 am to JoeyP239
recycling bin in garage that I take out once a week. saves room in the trash can
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:44 am to JoeyP239
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:44 am to JoeyP239
Goes in same bag as rest of trash
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:45 am to forkedintheroad
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Pretty much all recycling has been shown to be a sham, they just trash most or all your shite and skim gov't money while doing it.
I know plastic is a scam. I am not sure about metal and paper
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:45 am to JoeyP239
frick no. I don’t do that libtard shite
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:45 am to JoeyP239
Ive recycled a many of em
Whether its "worth it" or not, I dont believe in throwing away any metal of any kind.
Whether its "worth it" or not, I dont believe in throwing away any metal of any kind.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:46 am to Bear88
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Goes in same bag as rest of trash
Yep, reward is not worth effort.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:48 am to JoeyP239
No longer drink things found in aluminum cans, but when we did we'd put them out in a bag for the local guy who pedals through the area picking them up weekly as his side hustle.
He does OK with my neighbors with 2 teenagers and soda cans.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:49 am to JoeyP239
I dont recycle but when I was a kid, like 10-13 years old, I'd walk around collecting cans in trash bags and sell them to the recycling guy in the Gentilly Schwegmann's parking lot.
This post was edited on 3/25/26 at 11:51 am
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:49 am to forkedintheroad
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Pretty much all recycling has been shown to be a sham, they just trash most or all your shite and skim gov't money while doing it.
Unsorted recycling, yes.
Sorted recycling (and especially bringing cans or bottles in yourself) is a lot different.
The problem with unsorted recycling is a combination of laziness and people being brainwashed to recycle everything. People throw tons of shite in their recycling bins that shouldn’t be there, contaminating the batches and making it a lot harder to sort/clean at the destination facility.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:51 am to JoeyP239
Recycling is a waste of time IMO. Even if they tried to use it all (they don't) the conversion methods are poor and really not worth the trouble.
Like salt water de-salinization and lithium ion batteries, the solutions are worse than the problem.
Like salt water de-salinization and lithium ion batteries, the solutions are worse than the problem.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:51 am to JoeyP239
This article from NPR (I know) says not many plastics aren't getting recycled.
LINK
LINK
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The vast majority of plastic that people use, and in many cases put into blue recycling bins, is headed to landfills, or worse, according to a report from Greenpeace on the state of plastic recycling in the U.S.
The report cites separate data published this May which revealed that the amount of plastic actually turned into new things has fallen to new lows of around 5%. That number is expected to drop further as more plastic is produced.
Greenpeace found that no plastic — not even soda bottles, one of the most prolific items thrown into recycling bins — meets the threshold to be called "recyclable" according to standards set by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation New Plastic Economy Initiative. Plastic must have a recycling rate of 30% to reach that standard; no plastic has ever been recycled and reused close to that rate.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:52 am to JoeyP239
when they stopped paying a deposit for the hassle of returning bottles, i stopped giving a shite about recycling.
guilt trip? frick off.
guilt trip? frick off.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:54 am to danilo
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I know plastic is a scam. I am not sure about metal and paper
From what I’ve read it sounds like paper is probably the biggest problem for unsorted curbside recycling. People throw pizza boxes, greasy paper plates, etc. in the recycling bin and it fricks everything else up.
Glass and metal recycling are legit.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:54 am to JoeyP239
recycle
Posted on 3/25/26 at 11:55 am to donut
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e vast majority of plastic that people use, and in many cases put into blue recycling bins, is headed to landfills, or worse, according to a report from Greenpeace on the state of plastic recycling in the U.S.
i went to use tilex the other day and saw this recycling logo and just started LMFAO. give me a fricking break. i'm not reading 'how to' instructions about how to properly break down and recycle a fricking bottle of bleach.
they jumped the shark decades ago and only virtue-signaling lesbians are still into this shite.
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