If recycling is the goal why is this a crime?

Family made $7.6 million by smuggling 178 tons of Arizona cans, bottles into California and redeeming them in recycling fraud scheme, officials say

NEWS

DAVE URBANSKI

JULY 27, 2023

https://www.theblaze.com/news/family-made-76-million-by-smuggling-178-tons-of-arizona-cans-bottles-into-california-and-redeeming-them-in-recycling-fraud-scheme-officials-say