stackyFACTSWhen multi-ton ocean freighters retire, they aren't taken to a polite recycling facility; they are rammed at full speed onto a muddy beach. Armies of poorly paid workers then slowly tear the towering steel leviathans apart by hand using blowtorches in extremely hazardous conditions.
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