8 tehnolodzis terrifying proportions
Not only the people are the last refuge of machines and different equipment, having fulfilled his sentence, too, somewhere to go, and it is not always recycling. That is exactly what appeared in different parts of the world unusual cemetery — telephone poles, tires and other items.
Now rarely where you will meet a pay phone, but sometimes they still come across. Especially in special cemeteries. For example, in the UK, staged two special dumps where dumped the world-famous red telephone booth. The owner of one of the cemeteries — 80-year-old Mike shores. All his life the man was a collector, broken payphones, and as a result he has accumulated several hundred. Then he decided to update them and painted red.
But the largest active cemetery payphones owned Unicorn Restorations and is located in Surrey. Anyone can buy here refurbished phone booth for 2 thousand pounds.
What to do with worn-down cars of the oldest underground in the world? It turns out that at one time these cars were thrown into the sea. When the new York subway decommissioned 2,500 cars, they dismantled the seats, wheels and everything that can be removed. Some of this was reworked, and the rest is sold. The frames of these cars on the barge were taken in the Atlantic ocean and dumped in the sea to create an artificial underwater reef. This project of transport Department of new York was completed in 2010.
In new Jersey there is a special cemetery where dumped dismantled the booth for the collection of tolls on toll roads. Before you take the boxes to the dump, they dismantled Windows, air conditioning, stainless steel doors. Here's the story about this unusual cemetery:
Even the neon sign is an official cemetery. It opened in Las Vegas in 1996. Its area is 1.2 hectares. Signs wedding chapels, parks, famous casino and other popular establishments of Las Vegas has found its last refuge here. By the way, now you can even buy a ticket and go to this landfill for a tour.
Approximately 150 kilometres North-East of Los Angeles is the city of Victorville, and there is a cemetery, where lies the path of almost every commercial airplane in the United States, fly away my watch.
The former air force base USA "George", later became airport logistics is one of the largest and most famous burial grounds for civil aircraft. When the aircraft reaches 20 years, it is either written off, or after the repair sell to other airlines. Some aircraft dismantled for parts. In the USA, three of the airplane graveyard, but Victorville is the most popular, as due to the local dry climate, the winged cars are better preserved.
In Kuwait city there is an area Solabia, dotted with giant holes in the earth where their old tires. According to some, here lies already at least seven million tires. Technologise so enormous it can be seen even from space. This includes car tyres from all over the world: other countries pay to Kuwait to bury here their tires. Obviously, this is not the best place from the point of view of ecology. Especially in 2012, for example, burned tire dump near Jahra. More than 5 million tires gave off poisonous smoke, and the fire hardly managed to control the flames.
This place is called Fietsdepot, it is located in Amsterdam and more an impound, and not dump the bike. However, they abandoned bikes that the police finds in the city. According to some estimates, the residents of the capital of the Netherlands approximately one million bicycles. Official Bicycle rack is always Packed and the streets are often caught illegally parked two-wheeled friends. They are constantly stealing, and that's another problem.
For the year in Fietsdepot is approximately 65 thousand bikes of all sizes and stripes. Each of them were recorded in a database, which shows the model, color, identifying marks, serial numbers, and then information is checked by the police to ensure that abandoned the bike is not stolen. Bicycles remain here for three months, and 40% of people end up getting your two-wheeled transport back. The bikes, for which no one has been sold at auction, dismantled for spare parts or going to scrap.
For many decades a big bulky war ships stood in the Harbor Suisun and was one of the popular and unusual attractions for tourists who came to San Francisco. After the Second world war, the United States Maritime administration has created a so-called reserve fleet Suisun Harbor, which is also called mothballed fleet, or Ghost fleet.
By design, these ships had the potential to become a reserve for national defense in case of attack. At some point, the number of standing here ships reached 100 units. But in 2007, the Ghost fleet disappeared: after a long trial, the environmentalists managed to unclaimed vehicles transported to the shipyard of Mare island and in Brownsville, where they were dismantled and sent for scrap.