If we wait long enough, they'll just rust away at sea

The decrepit vessels are polluted with thousands of tonnes of asbestos, toxic polychlorinated biphenyls, and quantities of heavy fuel oil.

The planned disposal of the ships in Britain has caused uproar on both sides of the Atlantic with U.S. and U.K. environmental groups challenging the scheme in respective courts. British politicians have also entered the fracas, calling for the ships to be repatriated and the waste to be disposed of in the United States.

...The rusting ships have been languishing at their anchorage points on the James River in Virginia for years as U.S. authorities argued over how best to dispose of them.

Former U.S President Bill Clinton outlawed the sale of obsolete vessels for scrap overseas in an attempt to shield workers in developing nations who work in dangerous conditions.

But the Bush administration sought and won an Environment Protection Agency waiver against the moratorium, allowing the ships to be exported abroad for breaking. article

....hey, do what you want....you will anyway.