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Recycling Rusting Ships Poses Risks, Rewards for Philadelphia, Other Seaports.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2001
By Henry J. Holcomb, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 20--The disposal of worn-out ships has become an international environmental and safety scandal -- and a growing business opportunity for Philadelphia and other seaport cities.
The controversy has been fueled by newspaper and television coverage of low-paid workers in the developing world walking barefoot in toxic residue around scraps of ships, and being blown apart when their welding torches hit pockets of trapped gas.
But the cost of clean and safe alternatives is high.
This has become particularly troubling to the U.S. government, which has an estimated 400 inactive warships and military cargo vessels taking up dock space on all three coasts....
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