(I just pulled that number out of my butt) then almost a million cars must be somehow leaving the planet to make room for the new ones, right? Are they being crushed and recycled/put into landfills that fast? I've always wondered because I don't see very many cars older than 10-12 years on the roads.
2007-02-10 08:59:00 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
Once a car is headed for the trash pile, it usually doesn't go on a farewell tour, stopping at the dealership and other places it once visited to say goodbye.
No, it is much more secretive than that. Think about all the cars that get wrecked. They are quietly taken to a junkyard or recycler and are processed there. At a junkyard, the car may sit for a few years for parts for other cars and then eventually will make it to the recycler to be stripped and crushed and then further processed.
Some people know when the end is coming for their vehicle and quietly tow or haul their car to the recycler or scrap metal dealer themselves.
Others, not prepared to emotionally face the day where their car actually dies, will take them to the country and abandon them, perhaps in the hope that someone else will come along and fix the car back to good health.
2007-02-10 09:08:56 · answer #1 · answered by bkc99xx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Old cars are being turned into raw material. Scrap iron is a valuable commodity to produce new steel, and this applies also to old ships as well.
(Actually, if you consider that GM produces about 9 million vehicles a year, Toyota about as many, and so on, the world car production must be in the 50 million cars a year range)
2007-02-10 17:02:10 · answer #2 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Almost everything made of cars is recycled and reused. Cars are ~90% iron and 5% plastic and 5% everything else so its really simple to just reuse.
2007-02-10 17:03:34 · answer #3 · answered by jim m 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have one of them here in Mexico. Lots of other old cars here, too. Even more in the junkyard, scrunched and recycled.
2007-02-10 17:08:30 · answer #4 · answered by fishingbabe8 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Alabama they end up in the back yard. Seriously, cars now are not made to last so they end up going to the crusher and get made into razors. Well those that aren't in Alabama.
2007-02-10 17:03:39 · answer #5 · answered by mad_mav70 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Got to agree with above but I have a dead one (1990 model) in my yard and I don't live in USA
2007-02-10 17:13:45 · answer #6 · answered by roger a 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
at this time they recycled everything. i think!!!!
2007-02-10 17:02:29 · answer #7 · answered by mauripaladi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋