| After the fluids are drained out of the vehicle. And all of the useable parts are removed. Then it is time to meet the crusher!
At Standard Auto Wreckers the shells of the vehicles are flattened and then stacked and sent to the steel mill for the metals to be shredded and then recycled.
The steel mill separates the shredded material into three parts: iron and steel (called ferrous metals); other metals; and materials that are not metallic, such as bits of shredded plastic, glass, rubber, or fabric. Steel and other metals go to a steel mill or foundry where they are melted down so they can be used again. Leftover non-metallic parts that can't be recycled go into landfill.
|