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Originally Posted by glatt
I'm thinking of all the perfectly good used components still in those cars that would be appreciated by the people who could use them, if only you could connect them to the right people.
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Many years back I'd be sitting in traffic on the way to work and see several trucks headed for the shredder loaded with cars that looked better than what I was driving.
They were headed for one in Philly at the foot of the Platt bridge, where a steady stream of tractor trailers and flatbeds would bring in cars that had the tops flattened, for shredding. The cars would ride up a conveyer in a steady stream, like a damn amusement park, then at the top drop out of sight. In seconds there would be shredded steel shooting out of one port, plastic out another, non-ferrous metals out another, and finally the fluff from upholstery/foam rubber/tires out it's own port.
These cars are supposed to be drained of fluids with the battery and fuel tank(s) removed, but every once in awhile there would be a big badda boom, where somebody forgot to take a gas tank out.
The biggest eats 450 cars an hour, but that's in Wales so they're little bitty cars
I heard a scrap company was gobbling all the little guys in this area and would consolidate the shredding in either Camden or Eddystone(old Scott foam) so they could load the shredded material directly on ships bound for China.