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Default Old ships, railroad cars re scrap metal


"Proctologically Violated©®" wrote in message
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Awl --

Been watching History channel, and the scuttling of big-assed ships.
Also, railroads, NYC Subways, go thru big expense to properly prep/clean
old cars, to dump them in the ocean for coral reefs, etc.

Now, if coral reefs are that important, OK.....

But, if not, why go through all the expense to dump scrap in the ocean,
when these mega-tons of steel could be recycled? With much less expense
and chemical waste ito prep/cleaning, etc.?

Esp. on military ships, where armor can be 15" thick!!
And on railroad cars, where just *one* wheel is 700++ lbs of high quality
alloy steel. Usually 8 wheels (4 wheels per "truck", two trucks per car),
but sometimes more.

Just curious.

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Man, I was thinking just the same thing. If they want to sink something,
sink PLASTIC!

LB