Slice of Life: The Problem of Dumped Cars in 1965's Britain

Here is a delicious slice of life on your plate from the times when everything was good and elegant. Down in the Dumps, as a part of Look at Life, a regular series of short documentaries that are filmed in the 1960's, displays the uncomfortable problem of cars dumped on or near the roads in 1965's Britain.

It's mentioned in this short documentary that this annoying problem later gave birth to a new field of work, which we call "waste recovery". Watch this amazingly spectacular video, learn how the problem of dumped cars is tackled and find out the history and development of an industry that makes millions of dollars per year.