fltcoils
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Gulp.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is operating a huge appliance graveyard in southwest Cedar Rapids. And every day, workers are turning the trashed appliances into valuable scrap metal.
The EPA calls the operation a "staging" or "sorting" facility. And when you add up the refrigerators, stoves, washers, dryers and other appliances...you're talking about thousands of individual items. Yet, while it's all junk that needed to get hauled away from flood damaged homes, it still has value.
John Frey, EPA on scene coordinator, said "metal right now is expensive--very valuable. So what we're trying to do is save valuable landfill space and two prevent the hazardous things in these items from getting into the environment."
http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/24358734.html
quote:
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is operating a huge appliance graveyard in southwest Cedar Rapids. And every day, workers are turning the trashed appliances into valuable scrap metal.
The EPA calls the operation a "staging" or "sorting" facility. And when you add up the refrigerators, stoves, washers, dryers and other appliances...you're talking about thousands of individual items. Yet, while it's all junk that needed to get hauled away from flood damaged homes, it still has value.
John Frey, EPA on scene coordinator, said "metal right now is expensive--very valuable. So what we're trying to do is save valuable landfill space and two prevent the hazardous things in these items from getting into the environment."
http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/24358734.html
