How to recycle a car - Curiosity Quest Goes Green #108

http://www.curiosityquest.org/curiosityquest.html, How to recycle a car: Learn how to cycle step by step as Joel is shown the process of how cars are recycled. What can a car become when it is recycled?
Joel Greene, host of PBS television show Curiosity Quest episode: 108.
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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 scraped vehicle for transportation to a steel mill.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_recycling


Why Crush Cars?
Why do we need to crush cars? The most obvious reason is so they take up less space. But why are we scrapping, shredding and junking cars to begin with? Recycling cars is a lucrative business, and it makes environmental sense.
The sale of reusable salvage from old cars is only a small piece of the auto recycling pie. About 65 percent of a junked car is made from steel (the rest is made from other metals plus glass, rubber and upholstery). The price for scrap steel and iron, though volatile, often hovers around $250 per ton. Expanding economies in Asia have lead to greater demand for scrap steel, bolstering the market worldwide. With 14 million tons of steel from cars being scrapped each year contributing to an industry-wide total of 76 million tons of recycled steel and iron, it's easy to see that auto recycling is a multibillion dollar industry [Source: ISRI].
Recycling metal uses about 74 percent less energy than making new steel, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Recycled steel is cheaper as well, since new ore doesn't have to be mined to produce it. All steel produced today has at least 25 percent recycled steel in it, and some products are made entirely from recycled steel. So in addition to the economic and environmental benefits, recycling cars is a vital link in the world's industrial infrastructure.
-http://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-crusher4.htm

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[MonkeyMouse51]

joel greene came to our school! ;)

[leamericanos]

nice keep it up !