Household metal is one of the easiest wins. Empty, rinsed aluminum and steel cans, clean foil, and pie tins go in the blue recycling cart. Larger or non-container metal (scrap) goes to a metal recycler, which often pays by weight.
📷 Scan an item with your phoneAluminum cans, steel/tin food cans, clean aluminum foil balled up, and clean pie tins. Rinse off food, and no need to remove labels.
Pots and pans, appliances, pipes, wire, car parts, and large aluminum/steel/copper pieces are scrap — take them to a scrap metal recycling yard (search "scrap metal recycling near me"). Many pay cash by weight; copper and aluminum are worth the most.
Aerosol cans (if not empty), paint cans with wet paint, and batteries are hazardous — see how to dispose of those, don't put them in the metal stream.
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