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You Never Think About Your Car’s Catalytic Converter—Until Thieves Saw It Off

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The Problem With Legitimate Catalytic Converter Recycling

The dust goes to the refiner and is turned back into metals, what happens to those metals? They make more catalytic converters. There's some chance the actual PGM's in your catalytic converter came from a stolen catalytic converter. So Evan, what is the answer here? You said that legitimate catalytic converter recyclers want the shady side of the business to be shut down. But is there an answer to fixing this problem? There's not a great answer.

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