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This photo is from Photo Gallery: Visions of Earth—Beauty, Majesty, Wonder
Scrap Yard, Canada
Photograph by Pete Ryan, National Geographic
It’s the end of the line for these crushed cars in a Victoria, British Columbia, scrap yard. Their metal, though, is destined to be recycled into other consumer products, and British Columbia encourages "early retirement" for older vehicles.
(From the National Geographic book Visions of Earth)
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