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Honda scraps 1,000 flood-ravaged cars in Thailand

Business Dec. 28, 2011 - 06:44AM JST ( 7 )

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Ranger_Miffy2Dec. 28, 2011 - 01:22PM JST

I suppose now would be a good time to make plans for where to drive ALL the cars to higher ground before the next, inevitable flood comes around.
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JeffLeeDec. 28, 2011 - 01:49PM JST

This doesn't seem like a sustainable practice -- to deliborately destroy products and not recycle them. In olden times, there was a concept called "factory seconds." Waste not, want not.
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m5c32Dec. 28, 2011 - 01:57PM JST

to deliborately destroy products and not recycle them.

That they won't be put on the market whole or in part does not imply that they will end up in a landfill.

Recyclable parts, I would imagine, will be recycled just as they would for any vehicle taken out of service. This simply ensures uniform vehicle quality and takes out the possibility of any unscrupulous business passing off flood damaged autos or auto parts as unaffected by flooding.
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MaboDofuIsSpicyDec. 29, 2011 - 12:53PM JST

Not true m5c32

I watched it happening on the tube. They have a huge crusher and the whole car was being squished into a cube.

I think they should have save the glass windows.
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It"S MEDec. 29, 2011 - 12:55PM JST

Which will get melted down, separated and reused.
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JeffLeeDec. 30, 2011 - 05:51PM JST

m5c32: please read the story. It says none of the parts, etc will be reused. Sorry, that is NOT a sustainable practice.

it's ME: the amount of energy involved is carrying out trhe process you mention for every single car is enormous. Sorry, that is NOT a sustainable practice.
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Taniksha ShuklaApr. 20, 2012 - 03:01PM JST

Good for Honda.Making a big publicity of the destruction will restore customer confidence.

http://www.usamotorbike.com