Does Maplewood Fire Dept still collect aluminum cans?

And if they do, where can I drop them off? Can it be any time or only during business hours? We have a huge pile of them in the basement and I can probably convince my husband to drop them off this weekend rather than just putting them out with the regular recycling this Sunday.

I don't believe they have ever collected the entire can. What they have collected are the pull tabs. if the fire department won't take the pull tabs any longer, you can drop the pull tabs off at the American Legion in Millburn.

Someone used to collect the tabs for a friend that's a nurse in a dialysis unit. Some can tabs are match some part of the machine they use. The mfr makes them as over priced consumables.

I'm told from a pretty reliable source that MFD had a collection bin behind the station where they collected aluminum soda cans (the entire can) for the benefit of a children's burn unit. I just want to make sure it is still there as we have a ton of stuff we are trying to get accomplished in a very short amount of time and I don't want to waste a trip. It is much easier for me to put them on the curb Sunday night but if they still take them we would be willing to drive them down there

I live nearby and if I get a chance will walk by tomorrow and ask. The kids love to see the fire trucks anyway, so it's win win.

Thank you. Considering the amount we currently have (don't ask) it would just be a shame to put it out with regular recycling if someone else wanted the scrap metal value for a worthy cause

What is this talk about only pull tabs? If you ever donated you would know that they want the whole can. It has been a loooong time since I had enough to make a trip, but when I did, I drove around in back of the station and unloaded into the container. I'm pretty sure it is still there, but haven't looked lately. Shouldn't be hard to see if it is still there if someone will look.

Regarding the pull tabs, that is an old rumor:

Claim: Pull tabs from aluminum cans have special redemption value for time on dialysis machines.

FALSE

Origins: A legend this good-hearted should be true. But it's not. And a lot of really nice people end up sadly disappointed when they eventually discover all their hard work pretty much went for naught. Pulltabs have no special value that makes them redeemable for time on dialysis machines, or indeed which make them worth far in excess of their ordinary scrap metal recycle value. While a handful of charitable concerns (including McDonald's Ronald McDonald House and Shriners Hospitals for Children) accept donations of can tabs, said tabs fetch such groups no more than the items' ordinary recycle value (more on that later in this article).
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/redeem/pulltabs.asp

sideshowmel said:
Regarding the pull tabs, that is an old rumor:
Claim: Pull tabs from aluminum cans have special redemption value for time on dialysis machines.


FALSE

Origins: A legend this good-hearted should be true. But it's not. And a lot of really nice people end up sadly disappointed when they eventually discover all their hard work pretty much went for naught. Pulltabs have no special value that makes them redeemable for time on dialysis machines, or indeed which make them worth far in excess of their ordinary scrap metal recycle value. While a handful of charitable concerns (including McDonald's Ronald McDonald House and Shriners Hospitals for Children) accept donations of can tabs, said tabs fetch such groups no more than the items' ordinary recycle value (more on that later in this article).
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/redeem/pulltabs.asp

Exactly...to my understanding, in states with can deposit laws, some charities have occasionally had pull tab drives, because that way they could collect some recyclable material, without consumers giving up the can deposit.

Leave the tab on and donate/recycle the whole can. If you put it in recycle, you are still doing a good thing, since the more valuable items in recycle (e.g. aluminum) help to subsidize the cost of the whole process.