Doesn't seem to me that all the post replies are worried about thieves. I think what most of them are worried about it what this forces the everyday good scrappers trying to make a living to do, jumping through hoops to make some money and possibly having to wait for that money. I need a license? Fine, I have no problem with that but I dang well better get paid in cash still and if they have to give me a check it better not have a hold on it because they have the material and I have something that could be no good tomorrow if that yard closed today after i left the building. And how would they know if the copper I turned in was stolen whether I had a license or not? It's not like copper is stamped like paper money is lol. That right there is the problem.
Oh, and if you notice, the guy in that pick is also illegally scrapping those grocery carts. Legally they belong ot whatever store they came from, my yard wont get any for us to use to unlodd stuff for this reason. methinks they aren't too smart to begin with.
Now, this part I quoted from that article, are they saying if I take a truck load of junk I picked up that they have to enter every broom stick and piece of fence or old shelves i toss in the bin? They really have time to do this in case that sump pump motor I brought in is claimed to be stolen? This is where I'm rolling my eyes. I toss in ten broom sticks and they have to enter those in a database? gimme a break.
• Requiring scrap yard operators to enter information on every item it receives into a national online database of stolen items called LeadsOnline. This would allow local police to search what the scrap yard has purchased online for items reported stolen.
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