DISPOSAL OF CARS
Crushing Plant; Considered i (N.Z. Press Association) | __ AUCKLAND, April 6. ! “To avoid the overseas ex- 1 perience of unsightly “car ’ graveyards,” the Auckland Re- 1 gional Authority is investigat- 1 ing the economics of a car crushing plant After an old car has been stripped in the wrecker’s yard, its shell could go to the crushing depot The steel could be reclaimed by industry. Alternatively, if reclaiming the steel were uneconomic, the crushed car bodies could be dumped in an inorganic tip or used to fill old quarries. The director of planning for the A.R.A. (Mr F. W. O. Jones) said today that the. A.R.A. was getting information about car disposal from : overseas and would prepare a , report in about two months.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32265, 7 April 1970, Page 14
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