Scrap Vehicles Abandoned

Here at Cash 4 Cars Cleveland, an auto buyer of junk cars in Ohio, we next look at problems associated with the auto scrap and recycling business in a remote area of Alaska. Selling a junk car in the Dillingham area is a challenging task, unlike here in the Cleveland area where there are several companies that will give you a quote for an old car. The fundamental reason it seems is that the region is not accessible via roads, but only via boat or plane. In the May 10th 2015 edition of the Alaska Dispatch News contributor Clark Fair released an article titled ‘Dead, abandoned, vandalized vehicles pile up in Dillingham’ with the following details: “One local mechanic, noting the high cost of purchasing a vehicle & barging or flying it into town, recently estimated that fewer than 5% of the cars that arrive here ever leave. The rest remain when their drivers tire of them or desire more dependable rides. They are advertised by word of mouth, bulletin-board fliers at the Alaska Commercial Co. or via the online Trading Post & resold.

Other elapsed vehicles can be found lying where they perished, their wheels spinning just long enough to reach a convenient ditch. And still others are abandoned in yards. Some such yards, are lined with the fallen — cars, trucks and vans — and usually boats & shipping containers, as if the owners were scrap dealers laying out their wares for display. In these yards, over multiple hard winters, vehicles & environment unite. Old tires develop deepening fissures and release their supplies of air until the steel rims draw earthward and sink into the soil. Vandals smash out windows, taillights & headlights. Leaves and other windblown debris plummet into interiors.

The problem so many vehicle owners face in Dillingham, besides the difficulty & expense involved in maintenance & replacement items, is the high cost of proper disposal. Residents here pay thousands of dollars to barge or air-freight cars & trucks into Dillingham. For many, then, it makes more sense to sell them or give them away, to abandon them or simply drive them into the trees behind their homes, rather than fork over thousands more to send them somewhere they can be disposed of properly.

I expect this “car-tastrophe” is just as dire in other remote Alaska communities, especially those with just enough roads to warrant large modes of transportation. It costs so much to deliver cars & trucks to such destinations in the first place that it makes more economic, albeit not environmental, sense to simply pile them somewhere and allow nature to take its course.” The complete article is available at this link: http://www.adn.com/article/20150510/dead-abandoned-vandalized-vehicles-pile-Dillingham

On the City of Dillingham’s website they are have a free landfill “clean-up” day where all bagged garbage will be removed for free & now have an incinerator for trash; however, if glass is mixed in the, the incinerator can be damaged (which is apparently a problem). One strange thing I noticed on the site is that the city accepts vehicles at its landfill for a charge and requires that the fluids be removed.  

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