SA Recycling LLC aims to avoid thieves who try to sell the company everything from manhole covers to cables for high-voltage lines.
“Material theft continues to be a growing problem in the scrap metal industry,” the company says on its website.
“SA Recycling does not buy stolen items. We cooperate fully with local law enforcement!”
To avoid receiving stolen goods, the company records the license plates of vehicles delivering scrap and creates a record of each seller, who must sign for the goods they sell.
It has trained its employees to better recognize stolen or prohibited materials such as:
n New production scrap or new materials that are a part of a manufacturing process and are being sold by an individual as opposed to a company.
• Items that are often only used by government, utilities or specific industrial purposes such as guardrails, historical markers or cemetery plaques.
• New materials used in major construction, or equipment and tools used by contractors.
• Materials that are normally not accessed by the general public, such as street signs.
—Peter J. Brennan
