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foreign [Music] so [Music] so [Music] hey [Applause] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] hello so [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] mister come quick my friend's just been bitten by a rat help us please he's over there in that car hurry up [Music] one time wow well [Music] well don't just sit there please won't somebody do something [Music] there is a solution [Music] columbia county in new york state has come up with one possible solution to the problem of abandoned cars releases are obtained by town officials to pick up the abandoned cars in the area the cars are then stockpiled at local town collection points where tires seats and gas tanks are removed and dumped at the town sanitary landfill the cars are then taken to salvage company dock sites where engines which are a different type of metal from the bodies are removed at the dock for separate shipping [Music] [Applause] the remainder of each car is pressed into a 22-inch thick two-car sandwich at a maximum rate of over 100 cars per day [Music] foreign [Music] the sandwiches are then loaded into barges that carry 800 cars for transportation to a new jersey metal shredding plant the shredding plant receives the sandwiches for processing or polarization at the rate of one car each 10 seconds [Music] this mountain of metal is composed of steel only it represents 30 000 cars whose paint non-ferrous metal and other contaminants have been magnetically screened away the machine is so efficient it even picks out keys odd bronze and brass or aluminum pieces even coins which may have been lodged in floorboards for years the process steel is a clean fine-grade scrap product which will be sold to steel processors throughout the world thus the junk car is recycled and its parts conserve to be used in steel products that are an integral part of our everyday life columbia county flattens 100 cars a day to rid itself of eyesores and hazards to health and safety how about you