In most auto factories, the leftover steel cutouts are stacked up, then sold to a foundry, where they are melted with other bits of steel and converted into scrap metal.

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The turbines and metal parts had long since been sold for scrap and every other useful thing was scavenged out.

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Although they have branched out into other occupations, their distinctive trades, as in Europe, include scrap-metal dealing, car repair and fortune-telling.

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Farther west, on the other side of the Crimean Peninsula, the storm caused a freighter carrying scrap metal to sink off the coast of Sevastopol.

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Guyton uses paint and other people's discarded junk to create displays such as houses adorned with stuffed animals and polka dots, scrap metal statues and politically incorrect cigarette adverts, transforming one of Detroit's most dangerous areas into a colourful outdoor art park that now spans two blocks of Heidelberg Street on the east side of the city.

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