Vermont Junk Cars To Be Recycled In Auto Scrapyard Boom
Vermont’s Hodgdon Bros. crush junked autos into scrap in Bennington and Everett, turning abandoned hulks into salvage. The venture, part of a state plan to reclaim 250000 junk cars, faces high costs yet promises to convert liabilities into assets while curbing landscape blight.
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Department of the Interior
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Hodgdon Brothers
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Hodgdons
Vermont Car Crusher Turns Junk Cars Into Scrap Metal
The Hodgdons operate a hydraulically powered mobile car crusher from Texas that compresses nine average cars into a nine foot high load, selling scrap steel for about 14 dollars per ton at Proler Steel Corp in Everett. The crushed cars may be shipped as fragmentized steel to Japan Italy and domestically, with Vermont’s unit run by a local scrap processing firm.
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Darcy Hodgdon
Vermont
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Ascutney
Everett
Hodgdon Bros
Jessie Dewey
Bennington
Texas
Proler Steel Corp
Japan
Italy
Vermont strengthens junkyard laws to curb roadside blight
Vermont expands environmental controls as it tightens junkyard rules. The 1967 law shifted licensing and enforcement to the state Highway Department and 1968 advances require stricter screening, licensing, and visible enforcement. Roadside Development Division lists hundreds of violators and court actions progress amid end to lax local action.
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Switzerland
United States
Green Mountain
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State Attorney General’s Office
Bennington Fights Junk Cars With Community Cleanup
Bennington residents rally to clean up junked autos at the town landfill as Hodgdon Bros. tow a crusher, with a goal of 100 cars rising to 200 and possibly 300. Civic groups, businesses and individuals donate funds and equipment while neighboring towns show interest in disposal at the landfill. Winston Luther heads a village committee as weekends drive progress and the effort expands beyond Bennington.
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Hodgdons
Dewey Yard
Beech Street
Fred Hutchinson Autograveyard
Branch Street
Bennington
Winston Luther
Pownal
Woodford
Shaftsbury
Junk car problem eyed for Berkshire county action
Berkshire leaders back a realistic state law to funnel junked autos into regional crushing compounds. George S. Wislocki of the Berkshire Natural Resources Council cites a Granby dealer and Hodgdon Bros. crusher in Vermont, proposing state aid and a regional network to transport and crush derelict cars, reducing scrapping costs and turning liabilities into assets.
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Hodgdon Bros
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George S. Wislocki
Berkshire Natural Resources Council
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Pioneer Valley
George Wislocki
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