I drank the eco-green Kool Aid as a kid. So instead of throwing away aluminium cans or…read moremetals/brake rotors/ heavy used car parts, I keep them for the annual trek here. Keep Texas clean folks! Just for truth in advertising, aluminium can prices have dropped to 0.30 a pound ( as of 01/31/20). Your doing this chore to keep Texas beautiful. Dont come if its been raining heavy, the layout is spartan with dirt access road that turns to mud. If you're new, head toward the weight scales in the back , before you climb the scale, a slow right to the yellow steel beam unloading area where regular folk unload their aluminium cans into one of their scale barrels.

We have been collecting and crushing cans like champs and decided it was time to try cashing in. So…read morewe grabbed our half-filled lawn bag of crushed cans and brought our boys along for the experience. It was a busy summer Saturday morning (note they close at noon). We drove up in our sedan among trucks, trailers and towers. You saw everything from school buses, to bikes and wheelchairs and even the kitchen sink! The drive thru line was long and it's posted "no walk-ups". We waited a good 10 minutes before being instructed to walk up anyways. In the yard, we saw piles and hills of the scrap being stacked and compacted. It reminded the boys of the movie "The Brave Little Toaster", except that it was all industrial. We walked right up to the scales and put our bag down. Then we went inside to present our id to the teller. He gave us another receipt to take to the cashier. There was a bit of a line to see the cashier, and it was super hot, but it was just more for the kids to observe. The folks treated us well, maybe because they're not used to seeing families. In total, we had half a trash bag, about 10 pounds, of aluminum cans. They paid us 50¢/lb. The $5 covered the gas but the experience was pretty neat for the boys to experience first-hand the eco-concious and economic advantage to recycling!