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Impossible Island: Dubai Palm Island

“I love what I do. I get to tear stuff up.” Every day around the world, thousands of planes, trains, and automobiles get cut down to size for recycling. A jumbo jet costing a hundred million dollars becomes parts the size of beer cans in a matter of hours. An 18-ton steel rail car is attacked by some of the world’s most expensive knives. And a fleet of automobiles dies a torturous death -the equivalent of an agonizing tooth extraction and an elaborate embalming … all to process them for shredding and recycling. Finally, shredded metal is reborn as shiny new Land Rovers.

Oct. 21, 2010