In the industrial periphery of Singapore’s carefully manicured cityscape, where the violence of accumulation meets the necessity of disposal, car scrap yard Singapore operations function as both symptom and cure of a consumer capitalism that devours resources with the methodical precision of a well-programmed machine. These spaces, hidden from the sanitised narratives of Singapore’s economic miracle, reveal the material consequences of a system that transforms human labour, natural resources, and social relations into commodities that must inevitably return to earth as twisted metal and environmental toxicity. The Archaeology of Desire and Disposal Every vehicle that arrives at Singapore’s scrap yards carries within…