automotive recycling industry facts.
The following are some available facts about the North American automotive recycling industry:
Total annual revenue is estimated to be $22 billion.- Recycling provides enough steel to produce almost 13 million new vehicles.
- Automotive recyclers spent nearly $50 million on environmental compliance in 1997.
- Automotive recyclers provide wholesale and retail customers qualiy parts that sell for up to 50% less than the comparable new parts.
- Automotive recycling keeps highways and roads clear of abandoned and disabled vehicles by providing a place to deposit these vehicles.
- Automotive recycling decreases insurance rates by purchasing inoperative vehicles from insurance companies, thus allowing for recovery of financial losses. These vehicles came primarily from individual owners and salvage auctions.
- Automotive recycling saves an estimated 85 million barrels of oil a year, that would have been used in the manufacturing of new or replacement parts.
the benefits of automotive recycling on our environment.
In addition to conserving natural resources, automotive recycling plays an important role in reducing air and water pollution, and solid waste generation. Automotive recyclers must abide by stringent local and national regulations on dealing with waste generated by salvaged automobiles. Many individual automotive recyclers have also instituted their own unique programs to further reduduce the potential effects of harmful materials to thier businesses and communities. Click HERE to view an Automotive Recycling Industry Overview PowerPoint.
automotive recycling is a sophisticated, technology -driven industry
Automotive recycling has evolved into a sophisticated market and technology-driven industry that constantly changes to keep abreast of innovations in automotive technology and manufacturing techniques. Rather than merely crushing wrecked, abandoned, and mechanically disabled motor vehicles, today's modern recycling facilities have definitive operational scheme that maximize the vehicles's true market value, all thewhile providing an economic and environmental benefit to the community.
Take a tour of a modern automotive recycling business
In a typical modern recycling business, inoperative motor vehicles are brought into a facility where the hazardous and recycable fluids are properly drained. Undamaged parts are then dismantled from the vehicle, cleaned, tested, inventoried, and stored in a warehouse until sold. The remaining vehicle hulk is then prepared for scrapping.
Automotive recyclers are a valuable source for economical and often hard to find used motor vehicle replacement parts. Professional auto recyclers use computer and satellite communication systems that enable for direct inventory assesment as well as locate parts across town or across the continent, by simpy entering the appropriate data into their computer system. This technology allows recyclers to maximize their inventories and provide quick and efficient service to their customers. If you would like to take a tour of an automotive recycling facility, please contact Kelly Badillo, ARA Director of Member Services, at kelly@a-r-a.org or call (888) 385-1005.
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