Scrap Steel Is Money in the Bank
It could be argued that no other material is as important to the modern world as steel. About 65% of a modern automobile is made of steel and iron, and both materials come from iron ore.
Iron ores are rocks and minerals which contain metallic iron and that, when properly processed, can be made into steel. The most commonly mined minerals for the steel process are magnetite, hematite, goethite, limonite, and siderite. Currently the United States mines about thirty million metric tons per year to meet demands for steel.
In an effort to lower costs, automobile manufacturers have turned to recycled steel and iron to produce their vehicles. About fourteen million tons of steel are recycled each year in the United States and that accounts for approximately 13.5 million automobiles. The process involves removing usable parts from a junk car and then feeding the core into a giant shredding machine; the remaining pile of shredded metal is then separated by type, with the iron and steel removed by magnets.
The purpose of this little industrial lesson is to point out how valuable recycled scrap metal is. Car recycling centers like the newly formed Cars and Cores, a division of Cash-n-Carry, pay cash for cars and scrap items and then their car dismantlers do the rest of the job so that the recycled steel and iron is passed along through the proper channels where it will once again be used in the production of a fine vehicle.
Why do this? Mainly because the environment is begging you to do it. Mining is an expensive undertaking with regards to energy use, not to mention the blight on the landscape when mining occurs. Now, if you aren’t environmentally conscious, how about the fact that car recycling means money for you? Cars and Cores will buy any car and a number of individual items from scrap cars. The process is amazingly simple: give us a call, tell us what you have, receive a quote, get rid of that junk in your yard, and make some cash. Now isn’t that better than tearing up the landscape and using energy that is needed for other purposes?
