Piles of scrapped shipboard fixtures and other metals wait in a recovery yard to be separated and sold. Under a program operated by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, Navy commands with qualifying recycling programs can receive 100 percent of the proceeds from the sale of scrap or waste materials. The money can be used for morale, welfare, and recreation programs and other approved projects

Industrial salvage. Marine iron and steel scrap. Iron and steel scrap, left over from the repair and replacement of marine boilers, turbine engines and other equipment, now ready for removal from the Seabrook, Louisiana yard of the Standard Dredging Corporation. Much of the old metal from heavy dredgers and from Eagle boats of the last war will go to sea again in our new merchant ships and fighting craft. Standard Dredging Corporation

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Firing scrapped automobiles to provide steel for the National Defense production program. In these auto graveyards scrapped cars are stripped of all usable parts and then sent to scrap iron dealers who press and bale the metal for shipment to steel mills

Bales of compacted aluminum cans are stacked against a fense in the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office's scrap metal yard. The air station's recycling office realized a profit of $50,000 last year and expects to bring in more than $120,000 this year. The profits go to the station's morale, welfare and recreation funds

Piles of scrapped shipboard fixtures and other metals wait in a recovery yard to be separated and sold. Under a program operated by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, Navy commands with qualifying recycling programs can receive 100 percent of the proceeds from the sale of scrap or waste materials. The money can be used for morale, welfare, and recreation programs and other approved projects

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Summary

The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Naval Air Station, San Diego

State: California (CA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: JOCS(Sw) James R. Giusti

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

date_range

Date

21/06/1989

place

Location

32.68484, -117.13002

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Source

The U.S. National Archives

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Link

https://catalog.archives.gov/

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