Photo: Dr. Grant Saff

Container Recycled as a Bus Shelter, South Africa

Once a container has completed its useful life, often because it is damaged, several outcomes are possible. The most common is the container to be scrapped and the materials recycled. On some cases, a discarded container can be put to unique uses such as a bus shelter (above photo).

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