Homer Simpson: Here are your messages: “You have thirty minutes to move your car.” “You have ten minutes.” “Your car has been impounded.” “Your car has been crushed into a cube.” “You have thirty minutes to move your cube.”
Homer Simpson: [Phone Rings] Y’ello, Mr. Burns Office?
@melonscoop
There is some car recycling place up north somewhere. Near the Great Lakes? Huge continuous system. Perhaps I have this a bit off in the details, but here is the idea:
I think they drain the fluids and just run the wrong car thru on one go.
No people, except the operation and safety and maintenance folk. Incredibly noisy. Feels like an earthquake if you’re in the control area.
They break the car apart and extract, metal by metal, other stuff sorted also. When the car is done, the sorting is done, and all of it is conveyed off to scrap sales.
The system is so sophisticated that it pulls all the loose coins from the vehicles and sorts those also. The operating co makes more than $10M a year just selling coins back to the treasury.
I would really like a tour of that place.
From the book by Adam Minter;
“Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade”
Sorted trash is the US’s biggest export. Guess who buys it?
The business of processing trash from the US has made some Chinese businesspeople into billionaires.
No one else can compete with them because of, effectively, free-market transportation subsidies. Each ship coming this way full of stuff for Walmart and every other store to sell has to make the round trip back. Those ships don’t ride well empty. And so they charge a pittance to carry our trash back to China.
Ya know… I like the idea in theory, my main concern is that it has become a marketing technique and that on most things the labeling might be full of crap.
I couldn’t help clicking “I actively want to destroy the Earth”. I don’t, but it’s funny and I see I’m not the only one who thought so… unless Kim Jong Un is on here…
I was in the store days ago looking at a Duracell battery painted green because it was “Made from Recycled Materials.” It caught my eye and I turned it over. It admitted on the back, Made with 1.5% recycled materials. Hah! Nice try marketing. I’ll buy my batteries from meh at that margin.
It’s most important to me when I need to get rid of something. Like several cans of 10 year old paint. Where’s a major paint recycler when you need one?
This post consists of 85% recycled content:
Homer Simpson: Here are your messages: “You have thirty minutes to move your car.” “You have ten minutes.” “Your car has been impounded.” “Your car has been crushed into a cube.” “You have thirty minutes to move your cube.”
Homer Simpson: [Phone Rings] Y’ello, Mr. Burns Office?
Mr. Burns: Is it about my cube?
@melonscoop
There is some car recycling place up north somewhere. Near the Great Lakes? Huge continuous system. Perhaps I have this a bit off in the details, but here is the idea:
I think they drain the fluids and just run the wrong car thru on one go.
No people, except the operation and safety and maintenance folk. Incredibly noisy. Feels like an earthquake if you’re in the control area.
They break the car apart and extract, metal by metal, other stuff sorted also. When the car is done, the sorting is done, and all of it is conveyed off to scrap sales.
The system is so sophisticated that it pulls all the loose coins from the vehicles and sorts those also. The operating co makes more than $10M a year just selling coins back to the treasury.
I would really like a tour of that place.
From the book by Adam Minter;
“Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade”
Sorted trash is the US’s biggest export. Guess who buys it?
The business of processing trash from the US has made some Chinese businesspeople into billionaires.
No one else can compete with them because of, effectively, free-market transportation subsidies. Each ship coming this way full of stuff for Walmart and every other store to sell has to make the round trip back. Those ships don’t ride well empty. And so they charge a pittance to carry our trash back to China.
@f00l
Why are they running the wrong car through? They better leave mine alone.
Ya know… I like the idea in theory, my main concern is that it has become a marketing technique and that on most things the labeling might be full of crap.
@thismyusername Bacon is healthy because it’s low in carbs.
They make things out of recycled material, now?
I couldn’t help clicking “I actively want to destroy the Earth”. I don’t, but it’s funny and I see I’m not the only one who thought so… unless Kim Jong Un is on here…
I was in the store days ago looking at a Duracell battery painted green because it was “Made from Recycled Materials.” It caught my eye and I turned it over. It admitted on the back, Made with 1.5% recycled materials. Hah! Nice try marketing. I’ll buy my batteries from meh at that margin.
@Rakaim I’m guessing the 1.5% is the steel shell.
http://www.steel.org/sustainability/steel-recycling.aspx
It’s most important to me when I need to get rid of something. Like several cans of 10 year old paint. Where’s a major paint recycler when you need one?
I’ve personally just started flushing everything down the toilet. No more trash, no more waste, just magically goes away. I’m so green.
What if I actively want to destroy the Earth, but I want the Earth to be clean and pure as I am destroying it?