Where does the fence sell the scrap? Somebody is buying it.

Same as stolen TVs, catalytic converters, and anything else.

There’s always someone who likes the money/discount more than morals/the law at the next step in the chain. Somewhere.

	▲	cucumber3732842 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>There’s always someone who likes the money/discount more than morals/the law at the next step in the chain. Somewhere. That's every scrap yard and most small businesses. Nothing makes you hate the law and it's enforcers, peddlers and proponents like being on the business end of regulations and a scrap yard probably has at least half a dozen agencies they are subject to. Heck, I bet half of these guys would aerosolize radioactive waste out of spite if they thought the wind would blow it into a "good school district".