Why dont the restaurants sell it to the recyclers?
They do. But pick up happens once a week or three depending on the contract and the tank size/volume. Meanwhile the target sits accumulating and tempting thievery.
Thank you. It was silly of me to post a question before I read the entire article. I posit having been in a pre-coffee state and having left my brain in my other bathrobe. *Sheepishly tiptoes away*
Seems that in an age when we have put men on the moon and built the internet some genius could find a way to lock the tank filler and the draw valve.