Sell 'abandoned' containers for scrap

This is in relation to the June 24 article titled "Uncontained concern."

The unsightly stacks of container boxes in the Charleston area are getting worse. It is probably the same at other ports. The reason these boxes are accumulating here and at other ports is because it is cheaper to leave them here — empty — than to ship them back to where they came from.

Some are used to ship goods back and some are sold to private citizens to be used as storage buildings.

However, there are just too many to be sold off.

These stacks of empty boxes are a very good indication of our trade deficit with other countries. More goods are coming in than going out.

My solution is this:

Sell the boxes to Nucor Steel and Georgetown Steel as scrap to be recycled. That would solve the ever-increasing problem of finding storage space for them. It would also do away with the eyesores these stacks of boxes create.

The SPA may say these boxes don't belong to it, so this can't be done.

However, I disagree. These boxes have basically been abandoned.

Joseph A. Ohorodnyk

Vickie Street

Ladson