Quote Originally Posted by mthomasdev View Post
Ryan,

I hope California is doing better keeping out of state CRTs out, than they have been in keeping cans and bottles out. Can't tell you how many stories I've read that say California redeems more than 100% of the cans and bottles they sell. Read stories of people from Nevada buying cans and bottles for a penny or two and driving them to California, making hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Yeah, I have read a lot about out of state CRV fraud. There have been a lot of busts, but not equaling the traffic of them coming in. Many of the busts included recyclers licensed by the state colluding with collectors from out of state. The law as it is right now states that you can only cash in 100 lbs of cans at a time which still is a whole lot.

The CA CEW (Covered Electronic Waste) program seems to have a decently high reject rate (I don't know the percentage off hand, but had read about it a couple years ago). Spot checks on the direct source of the CRTs by phone even end up excluding ones that actually came from the state legitimately. If the phone number was wrong, or the person gives the wrong answer to questions, it's not counted. There is a scrap yard near me that stopped buying CRTs because a lot of the people bringing them in were either not answering their phone, didn't have a phone, or weren't able to be contacted in some way. There was such a high reject rate, that it wasn't worth it.