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Environmental Benefits of Auto Salvage
By S. Kate Hobbs
With popular advertisements, celebrity endorsements and major community programs for recycling
in place it seems almost everyone is doing what they can in terms of the three R's (reducing, reusing
and recycling). People are separating their recyclable materials from their garbage, composting,
unplugging unused appliances and buying and using more earth friendly forms of lighting - but there is
one avenue that a lot of people aren't yet traveling that could do wonders for the environment.
Auto wreckers, junk yards and salvage yards all serve pretty much the same purpose - they seem to
be the final resting place for automobiles that are no longer wholly functional. There are several
reasons that a car may end up in a junk yard or auto wrecker - irreparable body damage, a seized
engine, cracked suspension or perhaps all of the above, but that doesn't necessarily mean that there is
nothing that is useable left within the broken shell.
You know, as an automobile owner, that things go wrong with cars and that the repairs can be costly -
by recycling used auto parts you can help the environment by reusing things that would have most
likely ended up going to a landfill, and you can keep some of your hard earned cash in your pocket
because a used auto part from a junkyard will most certainly be less expensive than a new part form
the factory. The auto parts that would have ended up in the landfill are not biodegradable, they would
be there forever causing a burden on future generations that will already have more than enough to
deal with from p