02-18-2010, 04:58 AM
The old containers are sent for recycling. Although they may no longer be usable for shipping goods, they are loaded with scrap metal and banded. So the container destined for the recycler is also being used one last time to ship other scrap metal for recycling. When they reach their destination, they are just added to the pile. Look at some of the ships and you’ll see ugly banged-up containers with metal bands around them, those are the containers hauling scrap metal going to the smelter. Not a bad way to kill two birds with one stone.