silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agoPennies Are Trash Now | The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square87linkfedilinkarrow-up1219arrow-down141
arrow-up1178arrow-down1external-linkPennies Are Trash Now | The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies.www.theatlantic.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square87linkfedilink
minus-squareenthusiasm_headquarters@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·12 days agoJust wait till copper goes up in value a little bit. In the 00’s gangsters were melting pennies down by the ton for the small amount of copper in them. Wouldn’t call them “trash” exactly…
minus-squareTehWorld@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 days agoSince 1982 Pennys are zinc with a thin (2.5%) copper cladding.
minus-squarethermal_shock@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoThey’re not copper anymore
minus-squarebobgobbler@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·12 days agoYou mean copper coated zinc. Which can’t be recycled, and already has about 5 cents of metal in them
Just wait till copper goes up in value a little bit. In the 00’s gangsters were melting pennies down by the ton for the small amount of copper in them. Wouldn’t call them “trash” exactly…
Since 1982 Pennys are zinc with a thin (2.5%) copper cladding.
They’re not copper anymore
You mean copper coated zinc. Which can’t be recycled, and already has about 5 cents of metal in them