Until today, stolen or crashed vehicles with judicial causes remained forever at fiscal deposits or police stations, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. There you could see, literally, mountains of cars and junk. As you can imagine these places became focal points of infection and contamination.
To avoid the growing car cemeteries, the government of Buenos Aires has decided to eradicate these prejudicial elements to the environment. How? They plan on compacting the cars and waste in a programmed way. Newspaper Perfil, informed readers that at the beginning 60.000 vehicles will be stripped of batteries, fluids and other components that threaten the environment.
The government plans to do a technical verification, a decontamination and compact whats leftover. The process will use software exclusively created by the University of La Plata to define the cars condition. If the car is in good condition, it will be fixed and later used by a government facility; however, if the car is inevitably broken, then it will be stripped, using a protocol elaborated by University of La Plata. This program explains what needs to be extracted and where it will be stored.
This kind of story brings joy to my heart, especially after my trip to Patagonia. It’s comforting to know some people in Argentina are working towards a better world.
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