Do you think this is worth it? Which one is more profitable?

[Detectingfreak]

Hey guys! I am going to get started into collecting garbage like random copper, aluminum, screw caps and pop cans. Which one is more profitable? All of these finds would be made by using a metal detector. I am just wondering how many Pop Cans would I have to dig/collect before I get $1500?

[49er]

DF copper would be more profitable but pennies are not all copper; so the best next thing would be aluminum. But you would have to collect a lot and I do mean a lot of pull tabs to get that much money....LOL.

[wayne1956]

At todays prices it would take about 3 tons of aluminum cans/tabs to get $1500.

[EDDE]

.30 cents a pound for cans

[pygmy]

Your wasting your time and body by bending over for this junk. Save your back. Aluminium is a light metal.
I estimate about 10 million tabs for $1500. You wont get there in multiple lifetimes.
And this should be in scrap metal section, hardly a precious metal topic.