I save the very few aluminum cans we get and just give them to someone who cashes them in. I don't know the current aluminum price--I'd guess maybe 45 cents a pound. Glass, I understand, does not currently pay to recycle, in fact I think it has been years since you could even get 1 cent per pound. I know for a while my city was stock-piling glass, --huge mountains of glass that it encouraged citizens to refrain from sending to the landfill-- waiting for the price to perhaps go up so that it would at least pay the fuel cost of transporting the glass to the buyer. Other recyclable items may be more profitable, particularly metals, but most recylcables require very large volumes to add up to much money.
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