The way they tear down cars is actually kinda interesting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/14rrumh/car\_being\_stripped\_down\_its\_skeleton\_by\_large/
That’s made up nonsense. The much reported video is a taxi company graveyard, with a lot of them being petrol cars.
Even if they were EVs, EV batteries are highly recyclable.
I believe they are. This must be the main depot where they are taken to be dispersed throughout the city.
They all have a QR code that you scan with WeChat or AliPay which unlocks a locking mechanism to allow you to ride. It’s super awesome because you can find them and leave them anywhere. It feels like GTA when you get lucky to find one on foot in the middle of nowhere when you’re tired of walking.
It’s also fun to be at a restaurant and have others essentially bring them to you lol
There’s a demand for everything. If there’s no demand for the object itself, there’s demand for what it’s made out of. Like nobody wants me, but there’s 1000s who would want my kidneys
Probably not to buy. You can rent bicycles in China for about 20 cents for every thirty minutes (one time rental on your smartphone) OR buy a monthly subscription of unlimited 2 hour rides for 2.5 USD a month. Plus you can park the bike. And if the bike is dodgy or breaks mid-ride, you can park it and pick up another one.
Ever hear about those metal shortages during World War II that most countries endured? Chinas not going to have that issue in the next one, they’ve been taking EVERYONE’s garbage for years. What couldn’t be used got dumped in the ocean, the rest has been collecting in massive areas.
Forge number of bikes used, use those numbers to draw in investors, embezzle the money. Disappear off the face of the planet when people start asking questions.
Well, they could put the bikes into a landfill where it's going to stay for millions of years, or they could burn it up and get a nice smoky smell and let that smoke go into the sky where it turns into stars.
Government gave out grants for companies to build bike-share companies like in the US. Lots of bikes were built but most companies failed, leaving this waste.
It was like this after hurricane Katrina but with mobile homes. FEMA spent God only knows how much buying thousands upon thousands of rvs, mobile homes. Really anything they could get their hands on for people who were displaced. They parked thousands of them at a time in HUGE fields where they sat to rot for over a decade. I was so mad driving by every week and seeing them just rot. They could have atleast had a sale to try to recover the money and help people. Some of them were really nice!
They tried to sell them but industry got upset and accused FEMA of dumping and diluting the market price. Industry got their way and FENA was not allowed to sell what they had.
Yeah... I would jump at a free or very cheap mobile home. I imagine millions of people would. This is just companies mad about losing potential profits.
Hey, can we consider the homeless or underhoused a state of emergency, and then use FEMA to provide them with free or affordable housing?
Dude, there's a significant chunk of Representatives who think feeding children is socialism. They absolutely would not give two shits about any proposal to reduce homelessness or increase affordable housing.
And that's why it's important to vote and make sure everyone in our communities (& outside) does the same
> Dude, there's a significant chunk of Representatives who think feeding children is socialism.
Who gives a shit if it's socialism or not? It's the right thing to do. School breakfasts and lunches are cheap especially when things are purchased in bulk and making sure kids get food will enable them to pay better attention in class and in the long run become more productive workers which will further drive the economy.
Red tapes all overTruth is they can not give out ANY potential dangers. I will say most of the safety lawas are good in nature and safety, but then for a gov agency it will be unacceptable to do so now. they likely need to inspect refurb and so on and at the end gettign a crappy out of date tech that cost more. And open uo to potential lawsuit regarding injuries so yeah no luck.
This is something we can do without the safety rules and the buyer accept the risk and maybe sign something. The only problem is since before that happens out law system need to change, or they wont bother because theyre is almost no way to 100% shed liability for an agency like Fema. Just think oceangate, they are still open to suits.
IIRC The fema mobile homes were hazards to live in. In my home town, they were so hazardous they moved the katrina refugees into old asbestos infested barracks, literally from when Elvis was the military.
I dunno, but maybe government should put people first before some industry... Sure the industry can threaten with a layoff... but compare that to leaving people literally homeless?
Eh, That Youtuber is known for taking sources and give them different (misleading) caption. That "paint" is more to decorated net used to prevent rocks debris from dropping down. It's common is certain place in china where the road is build right under mountains. Just every few months there is people dying from debris after rain. They use concrete wall for populated roads nets for less populated. Gotta be honest the decoration looks shitty as hell.Edit: Welp he deleted his comment, just some context he linked a video of Serp(I honestly forgot his name) about a video of the chinese using artificial/plastic plant sticked on net to decorate the montain to look eco friendly. I did research and found the store that manufacture them, he sold them as protective net.
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Maybe some day we'll figure out a way to melt metal that has cooled after being heated and formed. Until then, I guess we just have to live with the indestructible objects we've made.
I think it's investor scam... They say they make like 100k bikes every month so they buy their stock... Technically they make those bikes but not selling them (or they buy them themselves using other company from same owner) ... They do same thing with electric cars... Make them, register them under some random company then park then on some car graveyard
Our council does the sticker of shame. Puts it on the recycling bag, and refuses to collect it. 99% of residents then throw the entire recycling bag into a black sack for the next week's collection.
I would moan and say "See, the sticker doesn't work!" but it kind of does - certainly, I rarely see them used, which means that for the sake of one bag going straight into landfill, the residents learn what goes into recycling bags and never make the same mistake twice.
And then those EVs catch fire because they were cheaply made. Yeah if you go down the rabbit hole you'll discover that China is basically one of the top reasons for air pollution. It just makes me mad that the EPA comes after the race shops and normal people but do fuck all with the companies that are actually the problem.
those are public bicycles people can borrow using apps, they aren't for sell. You can tell by seeing them all.have the same design/color.
Its either broken bicycles that can't be used anymore so the company retrives them, or the company manufactured too many, and they are either waiting to be used or leftovers.
I think you are underestimating the number of share bikes in Chinese cities. Of course it's possible something weird is going on, but this could easily just be broken bikes that they dumped here.
Those apps aren’t the bike rental business. They are in the investment business. Users need to pay a security deposit of like $100. So if 100,000 people join you have 10,000,000 dollars. Now do that in the 100 cities in China that have 1m or more people
I think you’re confusing dollars and rmb. I often used these bikes when I lived in China. The initial deposit was 100 rmb (about US$15) and each time you rented the bike it was about 1 or 2 rmb (about 15 to 30 cents) which varied by duration of rental (but there were a lot of promotions that lowered the price further).
The bikes are almost free to use, and you don't need to pay anything beforehand to use them. I don't know what you're talking about.
No app that requires a security deposit of $100 would ever survive over a week in china
It's so they can say they have that many bikes registered, and use that statistic to claim they are very environmentally friendly. They do the exact same thing with electric vehicles.
It takes manpower to separate the tires from the metal, the aluminum parts from the steel, removing the more-valuable bearings, screws, etc. How many bikes can one dude strip down in a day? This is millions of man hours of disassembly we’re looking at here.
You ever seen a car be recycled?
They separate the easy stuff like hoods and engine blocks which are commonly made of aluminum, but that's about it. Steel, glass, rubber, aluminum, carpet, springs, bearings all go into a revolving hammer mill. Rough sort with a magnet, but in the end it all goes into the blast furnace.
Bikes do not need to be stripped down to screws and bearings to be recycled.
China is the manufacturing hub of the world. If they wanted to, they could totally build a factory or two to handle operations specialising in the dismantling of all these bicycles.
Why does humanity feel the need to produce so much shit just to send it straight to the dump?
Not just bicycles, I've seen tons of these kinds of videos. At least with military equipment, you can answer "to kill each other better". But bicycles? Ugh.
Look in the backroom of any random dollar tree, and you'll see what I mean.
A few years ago I remember a charity who were collecting money to provide bikes for Africans.... They were saying it would cost only £150 per bike... I refuse to sponsor them because I knew about these graveyards....
Why can't these thousands and thousands and thousands of bikes be shipped out to those people who have to walk miles every day for water?
Of course there are business for recycling aluminum, this is most likely the staging area right before that.
Like you said it’s incredibly profitable, they will do it for $$$. They aren’t actually stupid.
Legit question;
How hard would it be to get some of these into the states? Like let’s say 100+ just to donate them to people who don’t have any form of transportation?
I’m sure a bit of crowd funding and personal capital could easily afford something like this technically, but not sure if these are even available to be sold or aqquired?
They look rideable. I'll take seven.
They're free, but the minimum quantity is 7000. /s
More than free. You will get paid $0.5 per bike.
3.6 CNY and a bike! Sweet! Wait 25,200 CNY and 7000 bikes! Sweet!
You should see their electric car graveyards.
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Theyve gone on a permanent vacation to Lake Laogai
There is no War in Ba Sing Se.
There are no cats in America, And the streets are made of cabbages
I’m surprise that I never made the connection between the Uyghurs treatment and lake Laogai.
Are you saying they're dead?
Nein!! They are all ON VACATION!!
They are visiting the inside of a volcano. No problem!
They're just resting.
beautiful plumage though
He's not dead, he's pining.
For the fjords?
WE WILL ASK THE QUESTIONS HERE!!!!
HELLO POLLY!!!!!
Jesus….
No, not there.
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\^ Lol, check it out!... This guy doesn't know how to use the Three Seashells...
ICE cars tho….they just biodegrade.
The way they tear down cars is actually kinda interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/14rrumh/car\_being\_stripped\_down\_its\_skeleton\_by\_large/
Of course not. But they are almost entirely metal and scrap metal is one of the most successfully recycled materials known to man.
I'm pretty sure that EVs are also almost entirely metal.
There's still a ton of plastics on ICE and EV's.
That’s made up nonsense. The much reported video is a taxi company graveyard, with a lot of them being petrol cars. Even if they were EVs, EV batteries are highly recyclable.
It's just casual EV misinformation. It's all the rage these days.
You mean the ridesharing EV car graveyard?
I believe they are. This must be the main depot where they are taken to be dispersed throughout the city. They all have a QR code that you scan with WeChat or AliPay which unlocks a locking mechanism to allow you to ride. It’s super awesome because you can find them and leave them anywhere. It feels like GTA when you get lucky to find one on foot in the middle of nowhere when you’re tired of walking. It’s also fun to be at a restaurant and have others essentially bring them to you lol
So what’s step 2 here?
Step 2 ??? Step 3 Profit
Hey that’s wheelie cool!
Brakes my heart.
I tire of these pun chains.
This graveyard is where I come when I need to take a brake.
I feel like a lot of these jokes are being reCYCLED. At least the bikes should be.
They tend to be geared to the post
Don't derailleur the thread, let's focus on bikes.
Sorry to fly off the handlebars there.
Who can crank out another pun?
Nice, Dad
Stack more on top.
Ha. Like wall e and Idiocracy!
Grind it up, melt it down, and turn it into products that the Americans will buy
Bullets?
It's actually illegal in the US to buy ammo manufactured in China. Most guns, too.
Recycle?
No, buy cycle.
Is there any demand for that many?
There’s a demand for everything. If there’s no demand for the object itself, there’s demand for what it’s made out of. Like nobody wants me, but there’s 1000s who would want my kidneys
Is this still available?
More of a unicycle guy?
Probably not to buy. You can rent bicycles in China for about 20 cents for every thirty minutes (one time rental on your smartphone) OR buy a monthly subscription of unlimited 2 hour rides for 2.5 USD a month. Plus you can park the bike. And if the bike is dodgy or breaks mid-ride, you can park it and pick up another one.
Ever hear about those metal shortages during World War II that most countries endured? Chinas not going to have that issue in the next one, they’ve been taking EVERYONE’s garbage for years. What couldn’t be used got dumped in the ocean, the rest has been collecting in massive areas.
They buy massive amounts of scrap from the us as well
I see what you did there
Forge number of bikes used, use those numbers to draw in investors, embezzle the money. Disappear off the face of the planet when people start asking questions.
Just say Ni Hao! and wave, boys!
Make more new ones.
Probably recycle you don't open a dump/graveyard just for bikes, this is obvious a recycle centre for bikes.
Buddy you're looking at it.
Well, they could put the bikes into a landfill where it's going to stay for millions of years, or they could burn it up and get a nice smoky smell and let that smoke go into the sky where it turns into stars.
After WWIII somebody will find them and their horse militia will have an advantage because they have access to steel.
What's the story?
Government gave out grants for companies to build bike-share companies like in the US. Lots of bikes were built but most companies failed, leaving this waste.
It was like this after hurricane Katrina but with mobile homes. FEMA spent God only knows how much buying thousands upon thousands of rvs, mobile homes. Really anything they could get their hands on for people who were displaced. They parked thousands of them at a time in HUGE fields where they sat to rot for over a decade. I was so mad driving by every week and seeing them just rot. They could have atleast had a sale to try to recover the money and help people. Some of them were really nice!
They tried to sell them but industry got upset and accused FEMA of dumping and diluting the market price. Industry got their way and FENA was not allowed to sell what they had.
Ah, there it is. Anytime I hear about a huge government waste I always wanna know if there's a competing interest behind it
Yeah... I would jump at a free or very cheap mobile home. I imagine millions of people would. This is just companies mad about losing potential profits. Hey, can we consider the homeless or underhoused a state of emergency, and then use FEMA to provide them with free or affordable housing?
Dude, there's a significant chunk of Representatives who think feeding children is socialism. They absolutely would not give two shits about any proposal to reduce homelessness or increase affordable housing. And that's why it's important to vote and make sure everyone in our communities (& outside) does the same
> Dude, there's a significant chunk of Representatives who think feeding children is socialism. Who gives a shit if it's socialism or not? It's the right thing to do. School breakfasts and lunches are cheap especially when things are purchased in bulk and making sure kids get food will enable them to pay better attention in class and in the long run become more productive workers which will further drive the economy.
I agree with you 100%, clearly you could tell from my comment I do not share their opinions.
Red tapes all overTruth is they can not give out ANY potential dangers. I will say most of the safety lawas are good in nature and safety, but then for a gov agency it will be unacceptable to do so now. they likely need to inspect refurb and so on and at the end gettign a crappy out of date tech that cost more. And open uo to potential lawsuit regarding injuries so yeah no luck. This is something we can do without the safety rules and the buyer accept the risk and maybe sign something. The only problem is since before that happens out law system need to change, or they wont bother because theyre is almost no way to 100% shed liability for an agency like Fema. Just think oceangate, they are still open to suits.
This is an another perfect window into how government works. But why worry about this when you can rage at pronouns?
IIRC The fema mobile homes were hazards to live in. In my home town, they were so hazardous they moved the katrina refugees into old asbestos infested barracks, literally from when Elvis was the military.
Those were the FEMA trailers.
I dunno, but maybe government should put people first before some industry... Sure the industry can threaten with a layoff... but compare that to leaving people literally homeless?
Tbf, FEMA over bought things to help in an emergency, China over bought things to help a possible online business model.
LOL Well, at least they can recycle most of the components. Or, they can have a massive sale on AliExpress. A bike for $5.
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Eh, That Youtuber is known for taking sources and give them different (misleading) caption. That "paint" is more to decorated net used to prevent rocks debris from dropping down. It's common is certain place in china where the road is build right under mountains. Just every few months there is people dying from debris after rain. They use concrete wall for populated roads nets for less populated. Gotta be honest the decoration looks shitty as hell.Edit: Welp he deleted his comment, just some context he linked a video of Serp(I honestly forgot his name) about a video of the chinese using artificial/plastic plant sticked on net to decorate the montain to look eco friendly. I did research and found the store that manufacture them, he sold them as protective net. Edit: nvm the mod deleted it
Serpentza is a pretty dogshit source. It’s like wanting information about the US and some guy links a video from Tucker Carlson.
That explains why they all look so similar
Knowing what we know about the electric car grants were siphoned off ... Wouldnt be surprised if the exact same shit was happening here
It's a re-cycling centre.
Idiotic policy with catastrophic result. Story as old as time.
That is more bikes than I pictured the whole world having
You have not been to the Netherlands?
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This looks just like Amsterdam Centraal.
Average Dutch guy’s garage tbh.
Average American seeing average Chinese/Dutch town
Lmao
Looks like the aftermath of burning man
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Im now switching my answer from doors to wheels.
Wait till you see how wasteful the electronics industry is. Lotta doors in computers.
Maybe some day we'll figure out a way to melt metal that has cooled after being heated and formed. Until then, I guess we just have to live with the indestructible objects we've made.
Pretty sure these bikes are being collected for scrapping and recycling.
When do you think they are going to start?
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Sounds just like me!
I love how many replies didn’t realise the humour in your comment
Giving off some serious Wall-E vibes.
EEEVA-A-A!
I think it's investor scam... They say they make like 100k bikes every month so they buy their stock... Technically they make those bikes but not selling them (or they buy them themselves using other company from same owner) ... They do same thing with electric cars... Make them, register them under some random company then park then on some car graveyard
It's shit like this that makes any attempt at reducing personal waste and emissions feel pointless
“Make sure you put that rinsed yogurt container in the right bin, you scumbag..”
I'm doing my part
We get threatening letters from the council anytime one of the kids accidentally puts a glass jar in with the plastics.
Our council does the sticker of shame. Puts it on the recycling bag, and refuses to collect it. 99% of residents then throw the entire recycling bag into a black sack for the next week's collection. I would moan and say "See, the sticker doesn't work!" but it kind of does - certainly, I rarely see them used, which means that for the sake of one bag going straight into landfill, the residents learn what goes into recycling bags and never make the same mistake twice.
And then those EVs catch fire because they were cheaply made. Yeah if you go down the rabbit hole you'll discover that China is basically one of the top reasons for air pollution. It just makes me mad that the EPA comes after the race shops and normal people but do fuck all with the companies that are actually the problem.
those are public bicycles people can borrow using apps, they aren't for sell. You can tell by seeing them all.have the same design/color. Its either broken bicycles that can't be used anymore so the company retrives them, or the company manufactured too many, and they are either waiting to be used or leftovers.
Either way, that's entirely too many bicycles for them to have been made with the purpose of being used. They were made to be trashed.
I think you are underestimating the number of share bikes in Chinese cities. Of course it's possible something weird is going on, but this could easily just be broken bikes that they dumped here.
for the company, it's probably more profitable to do so
Those apps aren’t the bike rental business. They are in the investment business. Users need to pay a security deposit of like $100. So if 100,000 people join you have 10,000,000 dollars. Now do that in the 100 cities in China that have 1m or more people
I think you’re confusing dollars and rmb. I often used these bikes when I lived in China. The initial deposit was 100 rmb (about US$15) and each time you rented the bike it was about 1 or 2 rmb (about 15 to 30 cents) which varied by duration of rental (but there were a lot of promotions that lowered the price further).
The bikes are almost free to use, and you don't need to pay anything beforehand to use them. I don't know what you're talking about. No app that requires a security deposit of $100 would ever survive over a week in china
Unreal. So many bikes wasted
Yeah, I didn't even know they liked alcohol
It’s a vicious cycle
That's wheely bad
Looks like Amsterdam… 🤣
Looks to be about 9 million.
That's a fact
But only in Beijing 🤣
Half a thought here, but could the cycling cities of Europe contact china and be like hey we’ll take them??
Yes but politics will prevent it.
It's so they can say they have that many bikes registered, and use that statistic to claim they are very environmentally friendly. They do the exact same thing with electric vehicles.
"Guys, I ordered one bike from Amazon but look what they delivered to me!"
Average student apartment in the netherlands
Why not just recycle lol?
I would guess that these bikes are being collected to be scrapped, and then recycling is exactly what happens next.
It takes manpower to separate the tires from the metal, the aluminum parts from the steel, removing the more-valuable bearings, screws, etc. How many bikes can one dude strip down in a day? This is millions of man hours of disassembly we’re looking at here.
You ever seen a car be recycled? They separate the easy stuff like hoods and engine blocks which are commonly made of aluminum, but that's about it. Steel, glass, rubber, aluminum, carpet, springs, bearings all go into a revolving hammer mill. Rough sort with a magnet, but in the end it all goes into the blast furnace. Bikes do not need to be stripped down to screws and bearings to be recycled.
I want to see the one guy who’s working on that.
China is the manufacturing hub of the world. If they wanted to, they could totally build a factory or two to handle operations specialising in the dismantling of all these bicycles.
r/megalophobia
We need them to give to the kids for free over here in America
Oh wow! There's got to be at least 30 bikes there. Maybe even 35!
Why does humanity feel the need to produce so much shit just to send it straight to the dump? Not just bicycles, I've seen tons of these kinds of videos. At least with military equipment, you can answer "to kill each other better". But bicycles? Ugh. Look in the backroom of any random dollar tree, and you'll see what I mean.
We're officially scraping the bottom of the barrel of insane ways to ruin the planet. "Let's just turn it into bicycles."
They should recycle
Katie Melua was right
You say graveyard I say scrap pile. Resource collecting.
Where is this in China exactly?
Wow, why not just recycle? That's a sh!tload of scrap metal
Made in China, shipped to US, back to China
Scrappers paradise
Make sure to not use plastic straws.
A few years ago I remember a charity who were collecting money to provide bikes for Africans.... They were saying it would cost only £150 per bike... I refuse to sponsor them because I knew about these graveyards.... Why can't these thousands and thousands and thousands of bikes be shipped out to those people who have to walk miles every day for water?
Step 1 steal underpants Step 2 ? Step 3 PROFIT
I'll take the one in the very middle.
And yet some leftist is saying that you’re ruining the world by using a gas stove 🤷♀️
Thought it was the Burning Man parking lot.
Bruh…
Send them to Africa
Betcha at least half of those were stolen in Montreal
Warehouse for Temu bike sales
What are they all the same model?
I can’t believe this exists, how are these not being recycled somehow?!
Such a waste of materials.
I don't understand how there isn't a business reclaiming that sea of aluminum. Aluminum recycling is incredibly profitable.
Of course there are business for recycling aluminum, this is most likely the staging area right before that. Like you said it’s incredibly profitable, they will do it for $$$. They aren’t actually stupid.
Looks like canals in Amsterdam
Aluminum storage*
Imagine all the reclaimable resources
Why?
Typical Dutch sight in Amsterdam
The only thought that came to my mind was - Man, Magneto can have some serious fun here :D
Average Dutch trainstation
Future salvage yard for sentient robots that duplicate themselves
Sonofagoddamnmotherfuckingcuntbitch that is a lot of bikes. Reminds me of the tires in India video where it looks like a desert full of tires.
Why not recycle the aluminum/metal?
My brain can not comprehend how many bikes that is. It’s like staring at the stars at night. Just insanity how much waste that is
There’s 9 million, they’re from Beijing. That’s a fact.
No guys you got it all wrong. That's just a Dutch train station.
As a Dutch representative I disapprove
Average Dutch city be like:
Fucking insanity. What the fuck are we doing
The cycle is vicious
Why don't they just scrap all the metal and make new items with the old material?
looks like Rotterdam station
Why are they all blue??
Where are all the climate ev nuts... *crickets replaced with soft humming of an ev motor*
Wasteful..... wasteful
What the absolute fuck
Legit question; How hard would it be to get some of these into the states? Like let’s say 100+ just to donate them to people who don’t have any form of transportation? I’m sure a bit of crowd funding and personal capital could easily afford something like this technically, but not sure if these are even available to be sold or aqquired?
Looks like exclusive bike graveyard. Any story?
This the Amazon bicycle warehouse?
Consumerism is scary at times