Our hangar tends to accumulate stuff. We have always collected aluminum cans and it was evident from the pile of them in the back that they needed to be removed and recycled. I called around the various shops in the area and found the one with the best price. We packaged it all up and headed out. At the recycling shop, the guys were very helpful carrying the stuff to the scales. We had cat food cans and an old cast aluminum grill top in the mix. Turns out the soda and beer cans are worth $0.56 a pound. We had 168 pounds of them. The cast aluminum is worth $0.40 a pounf and the cat food containers are worth $0.20 per pound. So we walked away with $110.08, which could buy a bunch of beer.

An interesting side note was that I had to produce an ID, give make, model and color of my car, license plate number, take a fingerprint and have my photo taken. Probably precautions because a lot of stolen goods end up in the recycle shops. We saw a 4X4X4 bin loaded with unused galvanized brackets, hundreds of them. Makes you wonder where they came from. My charitable view is that some building project got completed and the spares were more cost efficiently recycled than counted and returned. It could be the industrial supplier might have a very disadvantageous return policy. Who knows? I don't.