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Air Conditioners Are Target For Copper Thieves, Atmosphere Suffers
8:18 am in economics, materials, metal by TreeHugger
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A few years ago we would write about how you couldn't walk down the streets of Philadelphia without looking for missing manhole covers, and how entire lamp-posts were being stolen in Baltimore. The recession stopped that, but commodity prices are high again and thieves are back, looking for metal. There is a lot of it in air conditioner condensers, and they are connected by only two pipes and a wire.Read the full story on TreeHugger
