What Happens to My Junk Car After I Send it to YouCallWeHaul.com?
Your van that ferried the kids to soccer games, drove you to work, carted the family off to Disney World and helped the kids move into the dorm might become:
Real Recycling At Work
The Basics of Recycling Vehicles
Old cars are typically hauled to an automobile dismantler, where reusable parts are removed. After removing the reusable parts and other items like batteries, tires and fluids, the cars are then put into a crusher and flattened into auto hulks. The hulks are shipped to ferrous scrap processors where they are weighed for payment and unloaded.
At a scrap yard, the automobiles enter the shredder. The shredding process, which handles one car every 45 seconds, generates three streams: iron and steel; nonferrous metal; and fluff (fabric, rubber, glass, etc.).
The iron and steel are magnetically separated from the other materials. The iron and steel is then shipped to end markets or steel mills where it is recycled to produce new steel.
Your van that ferried the kids to soccer games, drove you to work, carted the family off to Disney World and helped the kids move into the dorm might become:
- An elevator in Boston
- An airplane hanger in Los Angeles
- A building at the Olympic Village in Beijing
- A hospital in Turkey
- A bridge in Korea
- A ship in Japan
- Or a 2009 Caravan
Real Recycling At Work
- The automobile is the most heavily recycled consumer product.
- 94% of ferrous metal is recycled into new steel.
- 65% of new steel produced last year in North America was made from scrap.
The Basics of Recycling Vehicles
At a scrap yard, the automobiles enter the shredder. The shredding process, which handles one car every 45 seconds, generates three streams: iron and steel; nonferrous metal; and fluff (fabric, rubber, glass, etc.).
The iron and steel are magnetically separated from the other materials. The iron and steel is then shipped to end markets or steel mills where it is recycled to produce new steel.
