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Once we replace cars what do we do with all of them?

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[–] feduser934 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the transition away from cars will be slow enough that this wont be a problem. In the ideal situation, people will just stop replacing their broken down cars.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah but what do we do with all the steel, rubber, aluminum, & plastic involved in all these cars?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

We already deal with it somehow. Scrap them for metal, recycle rubber and probably just throw away plastic, because plastic recycling is pretty crappy.

[–] feduser934 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess we'll have to recycle what we can, and put the rest in a landfill. Just the same as what we do with run down cars today.

I guess recycling will be a bit harder because we will not be using the materials to make new cars.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's probably true, but we will need new stuff. More public transport like trains and so on. I would assume that we can recycle quite some stuff there.

Also a lot of other things need these resources and I am sure that at least a lot of the could be used to enhance the world further

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What we already do with old cars. Put them in one of VVV those car crusher things.