A Dublin Corporation scrap metal recycling scheme sees old cars live on in different forms.
New garden gates, park railings and steel rods for the construction industry are just some of the items created from cars which ended up on the scrap heap.
Many of these cars have been illegally dumped, and for the past few years, Dublin Corporation has been collecting,
Thousands of abandoned vehicles.
The Hammond Lane Metal Company in Dublin crushes and shreds the cars, and the scrap metal is transported to Irish Steel Holdings in Haulbowline, Cork, where it is processed and sold to commercial steel fabricators.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 21 April 1980. The reporter is Reg Cullen.
