>There's no reason these things can't be shipped out in one or two pieces
Except a $675,000 reason of course
The alternatives being pure losses
They are getting paid that one payment to dispose ofthe blades, underground, indefinitely and for an infinite number of blades. The city has to do something with them so they bury them. Reusing/upcycling could actually produce income on top of what they've already received.
You're talking about a loss of easy revenues for the city... Somebody will have to build the industry capable of recycling those things, efficiently, and for a profit evidently, because that's the whole point. A business model better than bury those things in the ground and pocket the money, in a nutshell.
I get that it's easy to just pocket the money and be done with but the city could take a portion of that money and reinvest it and turn it into larger profits over time. It's just easier to take the cash, squander it and say "fuck it, it's a problem for someone else."
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