CNN —Johnny Wactor, an actor who formerly starred in “General Hospital,” caught people in the act of stealing the catalytic converter from his car Saturday.
But, up to last year, catalytic converter thefts had been rising sharply, up by a factor of four, since 2020.
A catalytic converter cleans a car’s exhaust, making the air safer to breathe for all of us.
On its website, the US Environmental Protection Agency has called the catalytic converter “one of the great environmental inventions of all time.” But it’s not what the catalytic converter does that attracts desperate criminals.
For the most part, the catalytic converters end up getting sold to recycling companies that strip out the materials to make new catalytic converters.
Persons:
Johnny Wactor, ”, Wactor, It’s, they’ve, Richard Waitas, That’s, Scott Vollero, Christopher Gaines, you’ve, it’s
Organizations:
CNN, “, National Insurance, US Environmental Protection Agency, National Automobile Dealers Association, Recycling
Locations:
Angeles, California