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Recycled Army Tanks, Bridges, and Subway Cars

12 by Doug Gunzelmann on January 30, 2009

The program has been a great success and now the trashed cars actually have a competitive market from other states looking to improve the health of their waterways from artificial reefs.

In the last several years, the artificial reefs have drawn swift, open-ocean fish, such as tuna and mackerel, that use the reef as a hunting ground for smaller prey.

A beautiful and efficient method to recycled large amounts of material that adds to the well-being of our oceans.

recycled reef

recycled reef

recycled reef

sources: New York Times, Surfing the Mag, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources,

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About the Author:

Doug is in perpetual motion and a self-proclaimed adventure junkie, that has had a longtime love affair with the great outdoors.

“I love being a part of the active world. The stuff that blows my hair back is adventure (all shapes and sizes), photography, mountaineering, Muay Thai, and seeing natural beauty in all its forms. The living earth is the framework on which I build my life and free time. My ideal trip would be BASE jumping at Sotano de Las Golandrinas in Mexico (closest I could come to skydiving through the jungle!). I work towards keeping it real, green, and healthy. ”

Doug is the co-founder of LiveOAK, although he says he didn’t know what a blog was until a couple months after he started.

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  • Uncle B

    Assholes! assholes! assholes! You take metal, requiring huge amounts of OIL, to discover, mine, refine and form, and you dump this uber-valuable resource flow into lakes and oceans – While Chinese and Bangladeshi children scavenge old ships and computers for metal, risking their lives for a few bites of food! Only a sickenly-rich American could promote this kind of carnage as “green”. Come to Canada, and watch the men die in the mines, silicoses comes quickly to mind, doing some of the most dangerous work in the world, before you publish shit like this again! You need hard and fast, up your ass, reality checking education, in the bottom of a cold wet mine, with pick and shovel in hand and sweat on your brow, before you condone such foolish carnage. You need a lifetime of substandard wages, poor living conditions and poorer food, to teach you world economics! You need the (GRD) great republican depression, now upon you, to sharpen your sense of values and right your ideas on costs! You have lived far too long, high on the hog, and the GRD is your comeuppance Yankee Doodle!

  • Josh the Happy

    What as ass, this has nothing to do with economics, fuck you for being a poor canuck. So yeah we got it better, but some of us are trying to save the fucking world one step at a time. If you got a problem with bring poor bitch about it at the right place dumbass,

  • Doug Gunzelmann

    In an ideal world this metal would not have been wasted, it would be sent to those in need, to be recycled in such a way so that new resources wouldn’t have to be mined, which costs people their lives and the earth such trauma.

    However, as with so many other parts of our global society, the ideal isn’t always practical.

    I am guessing this was a cheaper and or more profitable way for the companies of interest to move their waste. Is it ideal? No. Will people continue to mine the earth for resources? Of course. But does it have a benefit on the environment in its new role? Yes.

    Perhaps in the confines of this situation this was the greenest solution possible, or that the parties of interest were willing to agree upon (as opposed to a landfill per se). That’s what we have to deal with, and if people are willing to make small movements towards more environmentally responsible decisions, then this is at least progress.

    Btw, swearing up and down on a blog post, also not ideal.

    • http://www.facebook.com/ Mccayde

      Grade A stuff. I’m unquestiobalny in your debt.

  • http://qing_lin419.mysinablog.com/index.php Qing

    Hahahah~~ usually i see “green-up-grader” as a really innovative and truly green inspiration….

    if putting metal trash in ocean can be eco-friendly, then may be i should start putting my old furniture, construction waste, even my glass bottles to the sea so that the fishes can have even better habitat~~!

    I think my plastic bottles can be the newest “apartment” for indivdual fish family~! no more fear to the big fish~! only hide in the bottle will be the perfect shelter~!

    do u think the fishes want extra food also?? sure i can put my organic waste, down to the sea for the dearest fishes to eat~~! They also eat napkins, rite?

    Let me take care of it~!! i am not charging for “making better environment for the fish”~!!

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  • http://www.buyplumbing.net/blanco.html blanco sinks

    Seriously, find a different place to rant and scream. If you are going to fume over something like this than fume over all the people who throw away leftover food, which im sure entails millions of people.

    I think the company dumping those tanks could sell them to collectors, especially if they spent a little money restoring them. I know of a guy here in Utah that just bought a tank to play around with, so im sure there are others like him out there.
    -Jack

  • Global Spirit

    Dearest Uncle B- Nice,
    While, I wholeheartedly understand your sentiments, your anger dilutes the importance of your message. I have to admit that the american people are extremely ignorant, self absorbed and naive. They are pacified with idols who intoxicate them with songs and dances, while they are losing their future right before their eyes. It will get far worse before they wake up. The corporate media is spreading garbage from social landfills inciting racial tensions, creating divisions, instead of waking people up to their utterly tragic economic predicament and how they can change this by united action. They have the power of they can use in the area of working, consumption and voting and using their spirits and minds. They want to leave by the sword for which they spent trillions of dollars for decades, now they are about to taste what their own hands have wrought.

  • barbara

    do you know who was the first woman to drive an army tank?

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    importance of your message. I have to admit that the american people are extremely ignorant, self absorbed and naive. They are pacified with idols who intoxicate them with songs and dances, while they are losing their future right before their eyes. It will get far worse before they wake up. The corporate media is spreading garbage from social landfills inciting racial tensions,

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