WINNETKA : Recycling Center Is Fined Over Cheating
A recycling center in Winnetka was ordered to pay $13,576 in fines after it was found guilty of cheating people who brought in scrap aluminum cans, Los Angeles City Atty. James K. Hahn said Monday.
Southland UBC Corp., 20009 Roscoe Blvd., “was used by numerous homeless persons who collect aluminum cans and sell them for income,” Hahn said.
Officials with the Los Angeles County Division of Weights and Measures began investigating the company last year after receiving complaints from consumers, Hahn said.
On six occasions, undercover inspectors took bags of aluminum cans to the recycling center. The bags had already been weighed, “and each time their cans were short-weighed on a portable platform scale at the facility,” Hahn said.
After a three-day trial, the corporation and its chief officer, Erick E. Schulze, 39, of Canoga Park were found guilty and ordered to pay fines and investigation costs, Hahn said.
They were also placed on three years summary probation.
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