5 Environmental Benefits of Recycling Cars

If you have an old car sitting on your property that you don't know what to do with, you should consider selling it for cash. There are several reasons why selling your junker is a smart choice (easy money, for example), but you may not know how much recycling cars helps the environment. Here are few environmentally responsible reasons to sell your old car to companies like U Pull n Save.  

1. Reusing Car Parts            

One of the first thing a recycling company will do with an old car is strip it for valuable parts. Complicated machinery such as transmissions, as well as valuable processed metal and glass can be reused by motorists for their own cars. This saves them money while also reducing the carbon footprint associated with the production of new parts.

2. Helping Small Business

When you sell your car to a junkyard, you're helping a local business. Every time you spend money locally, you're helping support your community by contributing to good paying jobs. Keeping things local is a great way to cut down on the kinds of carbon emissions that occur when spending money on goods and services that have to travel across the country.

3. Less New Production

Manufacturing a car from scratch takes a tremendous toll on the environment. Virgin metal needs to mined and then processed. This results in the release of greenhouse gases as well as an enormous carbon footprint. The more car companies can incorporate recycled metal into new cars, the more the effects of new car production can be minimized. Junkyards perform the vital role of feeding recycled materials back into the system, mitigating the impacts that come with metal mining and processing. 

4. Increased Energy Efficiency

Car manufacturing requires a great deal of energy. Anything that can be done to reduce the amount of greenhouse emissions benefits us all. A chief way of reducing greenhouse gases is by coming up with more energy efficient means of production. An increased reliance on recycled materials is a more efficient process which saves money for manufacturers while reducing each car's environmental impact.

5. Fewer Dirty Junkers

Old beat up cars are bad for the environment. By sitting and rotting, they release hazardous chemicals into the groundwater. Every time it rains, dangerous metals and chemicals — as well as oil — run off from old cars and into gutters, increasing their detrimental effect on the community.

When you sell your old car to U Pull n Save, you're not just making extra money. You're helping preserve the world we live in.