02-17-2010, 06:08 PM
Recycling is only as good as the ABILITY to recycle the product, economically....
If a container is in an area with steel mills, then it is fairly economical to recycle it... if it is one, two or four thousand miles from a steel mill, then there is no cost incentive to ship it back... some containers are only manufactured for single shipment (some of the odder sizes would fall into that category) and some are not even steel (there have been ads the past few weeks for carbon fiber ones - gosh & the military had that huge plane here a few weeks ago.... I wonder....)
A big problem on the islands is that a container that is no longer sea worthy really is stuck here... unless there are useful things to do with these here (and there are even posters here that have resurrected used containers) then their fate is to rust away.....
If a container is in an area with steel mills, then it is fairly economical to recycle it... if it is one, two or four thousand miles from a steel mill, then there is no cost incentive to ship it back... some containers are only manufactured for single shipment (some of the odder sizes would fall into that category) and some are not even steel (there have been ads the past few weeks for carbon fiber ones - gosh & the military had that huge plane here a few weeks ago.... I wonder....)
A big problem on the islands is that a container that is no longer sea worthy really is stuck here... unless there are useful things to do with these here (and there are even posters here that have resurrected used containers) then their fate is to rust away.....