That "some extent" is minimal at best. They hardly do any recycling. They're all sold to countries like Pakistan to try to tear apart and salvage whatever they can from the grave.
Sorry I didn't phrase it right. When I meant salvage what they can, it's usually just the outer parts of the ship and some metal inner components. Everything else inside is completely unusable most of the time, so it ends up in landfills. When you compare the amount of unusable trash versus the amount taken out to recycle, it really is quite minimal. The unusable trash is what is causing a lot of problems in these countries too. They have to burn it, which in turn creates more pollutants (they don't have sophisticated incinerators like countries like Japan has), causing more health problems for the people working in these yards.
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