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What do they do with all the old globes when new countries are formed?

This is just something that sort of popped into my mind. Back in the 90s or whatever when the USSR became about 20 different countries what did they do with all those globes that were for sale with the USSR still on it? Kind of a random question, but seriously, what do they do with all the old globes?

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1. Old globes are processed at a globe recycling facility, where they are melted down and used to make new globes. After the breakup of the USSR, some 5.588 metric tons of globes were handled this way.
2. the globe police go door to door gathering them up and burn them
3. they round them up and burn them!
4. They probably recycle most of them, but I bet some are kept. They are pieces of history after all.
5. I suspect most linger on outdated for a long while, with perhaps more updating in authoritarian countries when borders or names change. (St. Petersberg -Petrograd -Leningrad -St Petersberg.) Change appears neverending, though Iraq is holding together for the moment. At least we're not having to put new continents on them these days, though globes with arctic ice on them may become nostalgia items in future. My globe is well out-of-date and my atlas still shows Yugoslavia.
6. I doubt that globe makers recall them, I have often seen globes, maps, and atlases that are out of date being sold new. Montenegro became independant last year, can still see maps for sale that don't show it. After the USSR broke up into 15 countries, it was over 2 years before I saw an atlas showing the new reality, took even longer with some of the changes from the Yugoslav breakup.
7. nothing....make new ones then sell them