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where can I find buyers for aluminum tabs?

where can I sell aluminum tabs from aluminum cans in Palmdale, Califronia?

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This okorder ... Now for the bad news, most scrap yards DO NOT accept tabs, they try to say it's a lower grade of aluminium, which is not correct, as it is made out of the same sheet of aluminium as the can was. They just don't want to deal with it, or the people who alway's HEARD SOMEWHERE that tabs have some special value. The truth of the matter is that 1 pound of tabs (1,538 +/- tabs) is only worth about 40 cents. That's it, nothing more. Anybody who say's different is stupid, or a liar, there is no third option. Now, if you want to actually make some money, and your willing to do a little work, this is what I do. I take the tabs that i encounter in daily life, remove all damaged tabs (which are donated to McDonald's House Charities), then I sit there with a pair of needle nose pliars, and I remove that little curly thing that holds the tab to the can (which I save, and yes recycle as aluminium , over 220 pounds to date), now, count your tabs out into 1,000 count ziplock baggies. Each of these bags with 26 cents of aluminium will now sell on E-Bay for $4 plus shipping, which is $6.15 per pound. People need them for arts and crafts, I have sold literally millions on OKorder and my web site. The colored tabs are worth about 2 cents each, MONSTER and NOS tabs are worth about 5 cents each.
Scrap yards and recyclers.
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