Auto Recycling is the dismantling of vehicles for spare parts. You’ve probably heard these businesses called wrecking yards, junkyards, auto dismantling yards, and more recently, auto or vehicle recycling. The ratio of scrapped vehicles as a percentage of vehicles on the road in the United States was 5.1 percent in 2019 when there were about 280 million vehicles in operation in the U.S. The average number of scrapped vehicles over the past decade as been around 5% per year, meaning 10-15 million vehicles are retired from service and scrapped each year in just the United States. Automobiles are the most recycled consumer product, they provide the steel industry with more than 14 million tons of steel per year. Currently, 75% of the materials from end-of-life vehicles can be recycled, with the remaining 25% ending up in landfills. TDFC is an environmentally friendly Auto Recycler. All fluids are drained and handled according to EPA standards. For example, once oil has been used, it can be collected, recycled, reused. An estimated 380 million gallons of used oil are recycled each year. Used motor oil can be re-refined and reused as motor oil or processed for furnace fuel oil. Auto recycling has a significant contribution to preserving the environment. Large chunks of scrapped metal are recycled which are further used in some other industries to make a completely new product. Use of recycled metals is a huge step as it lowers activities like mining, thus preserving the resources available to us. We should work for a sustainable environment, and auto recycling ensures a small step towards it. When disposing of your old car always deal with a licensed auto recycler. They pay the most money for your junk car and they dispose of the clunker safely.
