Tradewater

Tradewater: two guys in a truck hunting old fridge gas for carbon credits

A caller describes Tradewater.us, which collects old refrigerant chemicals (R-12, R-22, R-502) sitting in people's garages still leaking gases, destroys them, and sells the carbon offset credits. They operate like American Pickers, even using a second brand name to avoid climate-skeptic sellers.

“They go around collecting these things and then they destroy them, basically. They'll buy— they're usually like laying in garages. People don't even know they have them. And even though they're not being in use, they're emitting the gases. So these guys, they go around, they're kind of like American Picker. There's like two guys in a truck going around picking these things up They buy it off people, they put ads on Facebook, they buy it off people, and then they destroy it, basically.”