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Shipping Containers Offer Mystery Prizes

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Is There a Way to Dispose of Containers?

There's a trade where peoplel basically becauseo it cost money to dispose of stuff, especially dangerous stuff. Sometimes the manifest is vague. In the case of the one that i wrote about in the story, it just said, household goods,. And the was what that meants, anybody's gues te woudae wa wat value. It's like a complete n of random gas. The same day i was there, he showed me the car. He had a load of tires that had been illegally shipped off and had been sent back - so he was going to dispose of that. So why would something like that car not get claimed? Like, how? How frequently does stuff just

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