Car Recycling: Why It’s Significant?

Gatorade bottles. Newspapers. Spaghetti sauce jars. We all know that recycling is good for the environment, and many people have gotten used to rinsing out cans and bottles and dragging them to the street in their green recycling containers. Even banana peels and coffee grounds are making it to composting piles in American homes. But for as much recycling work that we think we are doing, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that just about 35 percent of Americans recycle. If we are going to save this planet we are going to have to think bigger. Have you ever considered recycling an entire automobile? Just based on size and materials alone, automotive recycling can go a long way in saving natural resources and our planet.

Why Automobiles?

With the plethora of public service announcements and school campaigns about the benefits of recycling, the concept of keeping materials out of landfills continues to infiltrate the minds of Americans. And the message is reaching beyond Coke cans and peanut butter jars to items that have an even bigger impact. According to the Auto Alliance, ¨86 percent of a vehicle’s material content is recycled, reused or used for energy recovery.¨ Considering the sheer size of an automobile versus other recyclable products, recycling your automobile is a great way to strive for sustainability. And this idea is catching on. Wheels for Wishes explains that more than 25 million tons of material are recycled from cars each year, including 90 percent of all of the automotive aluminum on a recycled car. This aluminum can be used to make a variety of new products, and is also an integral component in the new car industry.

Auto recyclers are changing the way we deal with defunct cars, and now supply more than one-third of iron and steel scrap to the scrap processing industry in the United States. The idea of going beyond cans and cardboard recycling is catching on: according to recycling stats from SellMax, 12 million cars are recycled yearly in America.

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