Our long legacy of using our streams, rivers and oceans as sewers and dumping grounds has come back to haunt us with chemical toxins collecting in the tissues of our children, sea life choked with plastics and accelerating species extension. Toxins from these cast off cars have leached into this stream near West Jefferson, NC for more than 50 years – so long that these wrecks have been woven into the landscape. They may well continue to trickle pollutants into the soil and water for another half century.