{"id":4527,"date":"2022-11-15T08:21:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T08:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kars4kids.org\/hub\/?p=4527"},"modified":"2022-11-15T08:21:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T08:21:11","slug":"how-are-cars-recycled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kars4kids.org\/hub\/how-are-cars-recycled\/","title":{"rendered":"How are Cars Recycled?"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 15 is\u00a0America Recycles Day<\/a>, a great day to talk about how cars are recycled. Recycling is a magic thing and certainly a cause for celebration. Choosing to recycle means less waste for our landfills and reusing what we already have for a more sustainable world. A broken down car, for example, may no longer run, but once it is recycled can still be repurposed to create something new. Here is what happens when you send your car to be recycled:<\/p>\n

Old Cars are Recycled for Materials<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When a car has made it past its lifetime it is usually stripped for parts<\/a> and then recycled. Even if an owner chooses to go through the car donation process for a favored charity, the car will often be sent off to go through this exact same process.<\/p>\n

Cars are made of important materials that can be processed to make them useful again. The core materials that make up a car, metal, plastic, and glass, can all be recycled and reused in a variety of different ways. But how, exactly, is this done?<\/p>\n

As you can see below, Volkswagen uses a recycling method called the Volkswagen-SiCon process. Most of these same steps and methods are used by other recycling centers. So what happens to old cars when they\u2019ve reached the end of their usefulness? Let\u2019s walk through this fascinating process together.<\/p>\n