I have been questioning whether or not scrap yards actually evac Freon. I have taken refrigerators/freezers to 4 different yards in town and all of them have me drop them strait on the shred pile. I have seen other units on the shred piles and it doesn't seem like they make any effort to recover the Freon. I have also picked up refrigerators with the compressors removed and the yards had nothing to say about whether or not the Freon was recovered by someone who is certified to recover Freon.
I am now wondering if I should just say screw it and start disassembling this big stack of AC window units myself to maximize my profit? Or haul them in intact and let the scrap yard break them down probably releasing the Freon same as I would.
Of course if I ask the yard if they recover the Freon they are going to lie and say yes they do recover it. But when I see refrigerators go strait on the shred pile how do I know they treat AC units differently?
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