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Originally Posted by Kaye-Halbert TV
They're climbing telephone poles out here in the California desert, CUTTING AND STEALING the cables for copper!!!!!!!!
Charles
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This was mentioned in a forum for electricians. That scrap yards in CA get a reward around a $1K from the power company for turning in anyone who shows up with power company wire. That the scrap yard knows what power company telephone pole wire looks like.
Heard that some scrap wire gets sent to China or other countries that don't have an EPA so that the locals set the stuff on fire to burn off the insulation.
A few years ago I had a moderately large quantity of old 50 conductor phone cable I tossed into the recycling bucket along with the soda cans. The recyclier picked it up, was a bit unsure what to do, but took it anyway. My town does "comingled" recycling. Sometimes I'll strip apart dead VCRs and such, and toss the plastic cabinet and steel frames in with the soda and soup cans and glass jars in the recycling bucket.