DOWNEY – A criminal enterprise of plastic bandits has been robbing Rockview Farms dairy.
Thieves have been stealing about 1,100 of the company's plastic milk crates every day from grocery store loading docks or distribution warehouses, said Bill Kroese, Rockview's director of safety and loss prevention.
The thefts cost the company about $1.4 million a year and make up about 4.5 percent of the 24,000 crates it uses daily.
The stolen crates are redeemed for cash, about 15 cents a pound, at recycling centers or sold to black market grinders and bailers who ship the pellets out of the country to plastic manufacturers, who make new crates and sell them to the businesses from which they were stolen, according to law enforcement and industry experts.
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