"Our scrap heaps can be aluminum mines," says David P. Reynolds, executive vice president of Reynolds Metals Co. In a small but worthy start toward solving the national trash problem, Reynolds is offering $200 a ton for the discarded aluminum cans that now cheapen U.S. parks, beaches and roadsides. In Miami, Reynolds is collecting 1,500 lbs. of cans a month through Goodwill Industries. In Los Angeles, it is getting ten times that from Boy Scouts, and other profit-minded collectors, who are paid half-a-cent per can. By melting down those cans, Reynolds "mines"...
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