Where do the old Ship's go when they have had their day?

Have you ever wondered how long a Ship's life is? well in general a long time, much longer than any of us keep a car, unless it's a classic that is

For example, durind the QE2'sservice for Cunard Line the ship sailed more than 5 million nautical miles, carried 2.1/2 million passenger and completed 25 full world cruises and crossed the Atlantic more than 800 times.
Now the QE2 was build with a very thick hull, whereas today's thin hulled ship's probably wont last as long, saying that the average life expectancy is still a healthy 30 years!

So where do they go....to the beach but not very nice ones! Alang in India, Chittagong in Bangladesh or to Pan Yo in China, these are the main ship breaking place's.

Greenpeace has claimed that workers (including children) work under primitive conditions without adequate protective equipment (so nothing much changes in that part of the world then!)

In 2009 The International Convention for the safe and environmentally sound recycling of ship's was adopted....Hmmm