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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:21:53 AM EDT
Two men have been arrested after allegedly trying to smuggle thousands of pounds of empty cans and bottles into California to cash in
the containers for approximately $20,000 in state recycling fees, officials said this week. The arrests were made during a five-day recycling fraud sting operation conducted in Riverside County by multiple state agencies between March 13 and March 17, according to a news release from CalRecycle. http://ktla.com/2017/04/14/2-arrested-after-allegedly-smuggling-recyclables-worth-an-estimated-20000-into-california/ |
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I thought they wanted people to recycle. Who cares where a can came from.
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They should've waited until Mother's Day, when they send the extra truck.
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They were not trying to get scrap cost for the cans
If there is a deposit on the can it was not paid if the can came out of state, therefore the $20k they were trying to get was not 'funded' |
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This has been going on for years. I have frequently seen pickups with high side boards towing 16 ft trailers with high side boards pack full with plastic bottles crossing into California at the Yuma/Winterton border. California never did shit because they were shooting for high recycling numbers to show their nickel a container recycling tax was working.
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Pick up that can ! .....but not that one, you pick up that one and you're going to prison. Pick up that.....other can ! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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MI has similar laws for returning cans. My inferior IL cans will not be accepted in the Jerkin Hand.
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Who's to say those cans and bottles weren't purchased in California, taken to an out of state wedding and are just being returned?
Prove they weren't. |
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They were not trying to get scrap cost for the cans If there is a deposit on the can it was not paid if the can came out of state, therefore the $20k they were trying to get was not 'funded' View Quote |
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Cali arresting Hispanics over recycling fraud one at an agricultural checkpoint, I gotta see how this one plays out, hopefully an illegal, and some other ethnic groups are involved just to spice things up.
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If it says CA refund on the can they should have to take it. Personally I've always thought the can bottle refund thing was stupid, but its even more ridiculous to arrest people for it. If they didn't want people to do it then they need to establish state line export controls to keep cans in CA. No way they can do that, so fuck em when someone takes a CA can to CA and asks them to pay up. Stupid CA trying to bend a law to suit their needs while ignoring the real problems they have.
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When I was a little kid in the late 70's and early 80's we were poor and my folks didn't have good jobs. We lived near the Oregon border in rural Idaho and would walk the highway picking up cans to take them to Oregon for the deposit. Life got a lot better when Reagan took office.
But I've been a felon since then. Apparently. |
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What did the recycling felon say when asked
" Why did you think it was OK to break the law ? " The felon said " Because I CAN ! " |
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I live in Vegas and every other Friday in my hood is recycling day. Between late Thursday and early Friday morning you will see families in pickup trucks going into every subdivision raiding all the aluminum and plastic bottles to take to Cali for the $$$$. Been going on for many many years.
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California created a market and then is shocked when capitalism happens .
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$20,000 in legally obtained product, 5 day investigation.
Any guesses as to what this 5 day recycling fraud investigation cost? I mean you have pay, overtime, transportation etc. Probably cost them $100k to break up this criminal enterprise. |
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They were not trying to get scrap cost for the cans If there is a deposit on the can it was not paid if the can came out of state, therefore the $20k they were trying to get was not 'funded' View Quote Seems California has plenty o money for its own illegal schemes .... go figure |
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$20,000 in legally obtained product, 5 day investigation. Any guesses as to what this 5 day recycling fraud investigation cost? I mean you have pay, overtime, transportation etc. Probably cost them $100k to break up this criminal enterprise. View Quote |
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I thought they wanted people to recycle. Who cares where a can came from. View Quote |
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That blows my goddamn mind. I would never in 1,000 years think bringing cans and bottles into a state would be a crime.
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cant catch or deport illegal alien cartel members though....good job ever vigilant prioritizing California
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I thought they wanted people to recycle. Who cares where a can came from. View Quote There is no California Redemption Value (CRV) collected on wine bottles, which have a lot more glass than a beer bottle. The closest recycling place to me is always very busy. They pay most people by weight, for beer bottles by the trash can load. A lot of people sneak wine bottles into their loads to increase the weight, and the recycler doesn't make much effort to stop them (they get reimbursed by the state for whatever they pay out.) They will stop you from including wine bottles IF THEY HAPPEN TO SEE THEM, but they don't look very hard. |
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No, but then they have several bags of cans in their vehicle, keep going back for another bag, and the vehicle has out of state plates it's easy. View Quote |
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