Disposal: the death of old cars

Cemetery of old cars - gloomy spectacle. Ghosts of the domestic automobile industry forced to think about the eternal, skeletons with gaping eye sockets look like a reproach. AutoNews reporter went to the disposal plant near Moscow, to see what awaits our favorite "horses", which has outlived its ...

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1. While the state program does not start recycling, collect rubbish on the streets of Moscow - the whole problem. Recyclers say that people are greedy and do not hurry to throw out their "iron horses" in the trash ...





2. Products, sent to the scrap, causes no illusions. However, even in a landfill can be found very rare instances.



3. standing proudly over a pile of scrap metal film star, "Black Lightning" - GAZ. Alas, in the real world of collectors willing to invest in the restoration of the body of the legendary Soviet model, and it was not found.



4. Before you turn the machine into the dust, it razukomplektovyvayut: remove akkmulyator, tires - all of this is sent to other locations for disposal and surrenders for further processing.



5.1. The machine is sent to the drying. From it the moisture pumped gasoline, oil, coolants, and so on. D. Total car, driven to recycling, "gives a" 1, 2-2, 5 liters of gasoline and up to 25-30 liters.



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6. Excavator used during the destruction of cars - a fabulous monster. His huge "petals" are very flexible - and all at once seize the car as a huge cockroach.



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7. Once the car is drained, he is thrown into a "meat grinder" - scientifically pulper where it izrublyayut into smaller pieces by a shaft-core.



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8. Nothing Sacred.



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9. Now the remains of the car are a bunch of metal, foam, ash, and all sorts of rubbish ...



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10. Most of the cars that fall into junk now - emergency. Unfortunately, the safety of our passengers manufacturers still think in the last turn ...



11. After pulper machine remains on a special conveyor belt into a huge shredder are sent where they are threshed special hammers at a speed of 600 revolutions per minute ...



12. Enter the shredder can not - waste products come from the other side. The shredder remains are separated by type of raw material: ferrous metals (80%), non-ferrous metals (1, 5-1, 7%). Clean waste occupy 10-15%, and later they will be buried in special landfills.



13. miserable bunch of metal - all that remained of the piles of the Soviet automobile industry. In one hour such recycling complex can process 50 automotive bodies. However, in Russia there are only six units (three in Moscow, one in St. Petersburg, one in Krasnodar and one in Novosibirsk). Like all the rest will be disposed of clunkers (to participate in the state program announced 50 companies), it is the big question. Perhaps improvised means ...



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