Collecting soda cans on board and seeling for scrap

[MikeB525]

Hey,

Do any airlines collect all those hundreds of soda cans per flight and recycle them, preferably by selling for scrap alimunum?

It's my understanding that the price of scrap aluminum is pretty good; something like $0.50 per pound. My CAP squadron is starting to collect any and all cans we can to do that as a continuous fund raiser. My commander said there are boy scout units that make a couple thousand a year doing this. With all the cans of soda the airlines go through a day that must translate into thousands of dollars that they can recover.

I'd imagine the airlines could save several MILLION $$$ a year doing this and it would be realively simple. Just have the FAs collect the cans separately in bags and then the whoever at the gate that collects the garbage would then throw the cans in a separate collector which would then be picked up by the scrap metal recycler. But this logic is probably to much to ask for from airline management.

And then there's the environmental benefit.

[Jughead]

Originally Posted by MikeB525

Hey,

I'd imagine the airlines could save several MILLION $$$ a year doing this and it would be realively simple. Just have the FAs collect the cans separately in bags and then the whoever at the gate that collects the garbage would then throw the cans in a separate collector which would then be picked up by the scrap metal recycler. But this logic is probably to much to ask for from airline management.

Delta does exactly what you describe. I'd be willing to bet most other airlines do as well.

[RiddleEagle18]

Delta donates all of the proceeds from recycling to Habitat for Humanity!

[rickair7777]

UAL did it on my last overseas flight.

[bravo24]

The airlines ship them to Boeing and we make airplanes out of them (Bud Light cans work the best).

MikeB525 - That's a good idea. My squadron has tried several approaches to raising funds but haven't thought about selling cans. We'll have to look into that.

[jmoney]

Originally Posted by RiddleEagle18

Delta donates all of the proceeds from recycling to Habitat for Humanity!

You actually call yourself "RiddleEagle18" and go out in public?

-Amazing....

[RiddleEagle18]

Originally Posted by jmoney

You actually call yourself "RiddleEagle18" and go out in public?

-Amazing....

It amazing that you feel you need to take all my post and say something about it. You did the same thing on flightinfo. Leave all your flame on flightinfo its really not welcome here.

[groundstop]

Originally Posted by jmoney

You actually call yourself "RiddleEagle18" and go out in public?

You actually consider logging in to an internet message board to be "going out in public"?

-Pathetic...

[7576FO]

The 3 airlines i've flown for all did it (recycled cans)

[BHopper88]

just make a stop in michigan and get 10 cents per can.... I remember working on the ramp in DTW for mesaba and agents would stay 3 to 4 hrs after their shift after saving up cans off flights and even going over to the inbound 747 intl flights to grab the garbage bags filled with cans. Once they got what they would need they would put them in seperate bags and take them home to collect all those deposits. One night saw a guy with 10 garbage bags filled with CANS... THATS ALOT OF MONEY if you do it in a year