What do you do with your pull tabs and junk?

[Goldstrike]

Just looking for your opinions here!
I see a lot of guy's posting pic's of their pull tabs and assorted junk targets along with maybe one or two good finds. Not criticizing but just an observation here so don't take it personal!
I personally cannot wait to unload all those pull tabs, rusty nails, foil, old batteries, screw caps that are still screwed on the top of a smashed jagged edged beer bottle!! and a myriad of other junk stuff we all come across. I don't fish anymore so any lead weights and especially the sharp rusty hooks I find get discarded quickly rather than weighing me down as I hunt!
IF I can, I will look for the nearest trash can during my hunts and also when I'm leaving a beach or park and only take home the collectible finds that I get. To me all that stuff takes up precious room in my pouch and I don't stand a chance of slicing or piercing my hands when I go in there for the good targets! I can see carrying some junk around to prove to the people you come across that your taking the junk your finding away with you but I don't usually like to post it.
Again, it's all personal preference and I just wanted to see what your opinion is! Happy Hunting all!

 

[MarkCZ]

The only reason I would post the junk with the good finds is to illustrate to the lurkers the real world of metal detecting, for them to only see the GOOD stuff creates an illusion that you can go and buy a metal detector and go dig up a park and find all kinds of money. This draws the wrong types of people to the hobby, these types will rip through a city park and destroy it thinking their going to get rich, these are the one we No Not Want in the hobby, they're the one that will ruin it for everyone.

Beyond that, the trash should be carry out and NOT left just laying around. (if a person collects scrap aluminum already then they may toss the tabs in with that)
Taking a picture of the trash to good at the end of the day does give one somewhat a judgment to the potential of that site, to be able to look at everything you found in one spread tells us the type of trash, the age of the site, to how hard it may have been already hunted, and if you find a lot of trash like tabs and foil could be a clue that if its been hunted the people before may have only been after coins, which means the possibility of some jewelry is likely. So, with that a decision can be made as to hunt it again, hunt it differently, or maybe just move on.

But, for me outside of that I'm quick to the trash can at the end of the day.

Mark

 

[hunter12]

Trash can.

 

[ironsight]

I like seeing pictures of the junk as much as seeing the silver finds!

Its a 'misery loves company' kind of thing!

 

[CladDog]

The aluminum pulltabs I keep. I have no idea why. Maybe I plan to recycle them one day.

The rest of the trash goes into the garbage.

The coins I keep and convert them to cash to buy gold or collector silver.

The jewelry I send in for scrap and use the cash to buy gold or collector silver.

Every once in great while I find a non-coin ornon- jewelry item I want to keep, but that's pretty rare.

 

[ken ward]

I guess I am an odd ball. I put all aluminum in a 5 gallon bucket. Copper in another, steel and iron in another. The end of the year I take it to the scrap yard. I dont get rich, but my wife and I can go out to eat at a nice seafood place. Beendoing that for a long time. My avrage is $18.00 to $22.00. KEN. Ind