Junkyards Rushing to Crush Clunkers PriceWheels.com
27.10.09
Scratch for Clunkers worked out pretty well. It gave a much needed bump to new car sales and got some gas guzzlers off the road in the convert. It’s also proving to be a boon for auto recyclers, who strip the traded in clunkers of any parts that can be resold, then shiver them and sell the metal. That boon is turning out to be a lot of stress for the recyclers though, according to MSNBC . Junkyards across the native land are scrambling to meet their deadline just like the car dealers scrambled to meet there’s a few months ago.
One of the provisions in the Banknotes for Clunkers bill is giving auto recyclers something to worry about. It states that any car traded in under the program has to be crushed or shredded within six months. Auto recyclers are asking for more leisure to meet that goal, saying that six months is not a long enough time period to fully process all the cars that were traded in, and many will be crushed with usable parts still advantageous them.
“True recycling is using something to its fullest potential and then recycling it over again by making it into steel and sending it out to become another machine or transmission or car,” Jeff Cantor, an auto recycler in Candia, N.H told MSNBC. “We’re breaking that enclose here by crushing good quality parts. We can’t process them quick enough in six months.”
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