The amount of Tin Cans that are thrown away each year is around 2.5 million tons or more of Tin cans each year.
And in the United States alone there are around 65 to 70 billion aluminum cans thrown away each year.
You can scrap tin cans and other tin food cans although you need to wash or rinse the food out of the tin food cans before scrapping them.
You should also if possible flatten the tin food cans to make more room and add them with other scrap.
Most scraps will not take tin foods cans by themselves but when added with other scrap steel and tin they will often take then that way.
Tin foods cans won't bring a lot of money but they can be recycled.
I do some scrapping of metal on the side and I always throw my old empty tin food cans after flattening them into the other scrap.
Sometimes I have an old washing machine, dryer, refrigerator, freezer etc that I throw the flattened tin food cans in.
It's not much but it adds up and I have to get rid of them anyway so I just add them to my scrap metal.
You can also clean the tin food cans and place them in a curbside recycling bin if you don't do a lot of scrap metal.
Taking just a few tin cans into the scrap yard won't get you much and likely wouldn't pay for the gas to get there and back.
But adding the tin food cans with other scrap metal can be worth it.