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1. Contact recycling centers in your area and ask about their current buying rates for different types of plastic and metals.
2. Collect the recyclable materials. You can use a shopping cart or wagon to collect recyclables from around the neighborhood. Ask your neighbors if they can save their recyclable materials for you to pick up. Go to yard sales and flea markets, as well as local dumpsters, to see if you can find discarded items that are made of valuable recyclable material such as aluminum cans, stainless steel, copper and brass, tin cans, magazines and newspapers, mixed paper, cardboard and plastic bottles.
3. Collect aluminum cans. Aluminum is the most popular metal among scrap collectors because it requires less effort than other metals. The downside of collecting aluminum is that it has low profit margins compared to other metals.
1. Collect soda cans or beer cans that are empty and have no liquid in them. If a can contains liquid, pour it out before trying to sell it as scrap metal.
2. Make sure the can has not been damaged so it is more valuable when recycled . If a can has dents on the sides or top or has been crushed, try reshaping it a little.
2. Collect the recyclable materials. You can use a shopping cart or wagon to collect recyclables from around the neighborhood. Ask your neighbors if they can save their recyclable materials for you to pick up. Go to yard sales and flea markets, as well as local dumpsters, to see if you can find discarded items that are made of valuable recyclable material such as aluminum cans, stainless steel, copper and brass, tin cans, magazines and newspapers, mixed paper, cardboard and plastic bottles.
3. Collect aluminum cans. Aluminum is the most popular metal among scrap collectors because it requires less effort than other metals. The downside of collecting aluminum is that it has low profit margins compared to other metals.
1. Collect soda cans or beer cans that are empty and have no liquid in them. If a can contains liquid, pour it out before trying to sell it as scrap metal.
2. Make sure the can has not been damaged so it is more valuable when recycled . If a can has dents on the sides or top or has been crushed, try reshaping it a little.
