### Comment:
what businesses are buying scrap copper? seems like they should be culpable for a druggie waking through the door with stolen copper pipes and buying it

### REPLY:
The company definitely is not allowed to do this. Weirdly relevant story but back in the day my mom used to work for a small foundry doing admin work. 'Scrappers' (read: junkies) would show up with carts of copper scrap - literally whatever they could get. Pipes, lamps, wire, whatever. The company would buy it (illegally), falsify the work to pretend it was legit, and make it into whatever. She reported them before she quit but nothing really came of it.

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