Huge section of Tiger Stadium to be recycled

Beloved Tiger Stadium may no longer be on the corner of Trumbull and Michigan, but it’ll be everywhere else. Nearly all of the debris will be recycled into trucks, parking lots and roads.Excerpt:Bits and pieces of the old stadium may soon turn up in the body of a
new Ford F-150 truck or underneath a freshly paved Wal-Mart parking lot
in the suburbs.More than 94% of the demolished part of the
stadium is being recycled. That includes over 11.4 million pounds of
steel and almost 17.4 million pounds of concrete and other debris.Some
of it won’t go far — crushed structural concrete from the ballpark will
likely be used in southeastern Michigan as fill material under roads,
parking lots and foundations. Some of the metal, like steel from the
stadium’s blue structural beams, could end up in anything from new cars
to kitchen appliances.Read the entire article here.