page_title: Vehicle recycling
section_title: Policies
hierarchical_section_title: Vehicle recycling / Policies
caption_attribution_description: English: Car Breakers Yard, Railway Street, Grimsby Probably known nowadays as "An End-of-Life Vehicle Recycling Facility". This one does a useful trade in spare parts.
context_page_description: Vehicle recycling is the dismantling of vehicles for spare parts. At the end of their useful life, vehicles have value as a source of spare parts and this has created a vehicle dismantling industry. The industry has various names for its business outlets including wrecking yard, auto dismantling yard, car spare parts supplier, and recently, auto or vehicle recycling. Vehicle recycling has always occurred to some degree but in recent years manufacturers have become involved in the process. A car crusher is often used to reduce the size of the scrapped vehicle for transportation to a steel mill.
  Approximately 12-15 million vehicles reach the end of their use each year in just the United States alone. These automobiles, although out of commission, can still have a purpose by giving back the metal and other recyclable materials that are contained in them. The vehicles are shredded and the metal content is recovered for recycling, while in many areas, the rest is further sorted by machine for recycling of additional materials such as glass and plastics. The remainder, known as automotive shredder residue, is put into a landfill.
caption: Car scrapyard in Grimsby, UK
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