Hey the sad fact is most scrappers do just release it away. I don't need to spend time on the internet to know that the scrapper I see IRL do not much care about EPA regulations. You honestly believe that from those pallets and pallets of compressors they have stacked up in the yard, that at least half of them were recovered properly? An internet discussion forum does not represent every scrapper out on the street.

Heck, I have seen deputies drive right by a person working over an A/c unit on a curbside. Did not even stop. Its like radar detectors and cell phone jammers. Yea sure, its on paper as not legal, but very little is actually being done to go after such violations.