Recycling cans isn’t just an important role to keep our environment clean… that also help cut mining costs, and reduce pollution. Whether if you were preserving cans for bulk recycling; or just collect cans for the purpose of reducing metallic waste. You can accomplish this task by taking any large bag that is dedicated for recycling cans.
If you had soda, or beer cans
Use a can crusher that will crush the can vertically. That will reduce the load of your cans in a large bag. If you crushed over 2000 cans; it will be heavy. You can collect cans from your neighbor who preserves a pail of cans for you, or you can go to the trash bin where you tossed your cans, and retrieve them.
Be sure to wash out your cans as you collect them.
Take any dedicated pail that will be used for recycling cans, and fill it up. If it gets heavy enough; be sure to get the another pail, and fill it up. Alternatively; you can use individual bags to gather all of the cans.
Place your recycled cans in a safe location of your home/apartment.
If you have large tin cans
Clean them out, and dry them. That will prevent odors from flooding your home.
Store it in your bag, and repeat each cycle via each can.
If you live in an area where it’s susceptible to rodent invasion; a rodentproof storage department is needed.
You may need to find a crusher that will compact your cans to a reduced state.
Bringing your metal cans to a recycling facility
Go to your local recycling facility. They will weigh the cans for you. Depending on how much cans you recycled, and what kind of metal what you’re recycling; you will receive money from them. If you brought 200 bags of cans, and they weighed up to 3 tons, or more; you can get more metal collected without any effort. If you recycle regularly; and you encouraged everyone to do the same… that will reduce all of the metallic waste.
If you lived in an apartment building, and your entire place recycled cans; that’s enough to cut mining/refining costs. For example; you crushed over 4 tons of cans, and gathered 10 tons of tin cans. Sometimes tall cans can be difficult to compact, but you can still accomplish this by modifying a trash compacter with a stronger force, or a stronger mechanism. The stronger the machine; you can reduce the size of the load. That can save you some time making frequent trips to the recycling facility.
Tips
Always close the lid of your recycling bins to prevent rodents or pets from falling in. That works the best for some people who were strict against using mouse-traps.
Get a digital scale that talks to you to determine if you have enough metal to take to the recycling center.
If you recycle tin cans that can’t be crushed, you may need a dedicated bin to resolve issues with recycling them, but never discard them.
If you successfully collected a large amount of cans; have your family do the recycling tasks. That promotes saving our planet each day.
Get a calendar to set recycling activities to help keep metallic waste out of landfills.
Things You’ll Need:
- Dedicated bags
- Dedicated bins
- Cans what you’ve collected
- Recycling facility
