Your car will be transported to an Environment Agency Authorised Treatment Facility (ATF) to begin the recycling procedure. An average car is mostly comprised of steel but other parts like the battery, tyres, catalytic converter, fuel, trim plastics, engine & transmission oil and brake fluids are removed. After this, the car is ready for compacting, and the above parts are recycled for lead, platinum, plastics, rubber and asphalt in addition the fuel and oils are separated to reuse in other applications.
Your crushed and compacted car which has been stripped down to bare metal is taken to a metal processing facility for further treatment. The remaining materials found in the vehicle include steel, aluminium, lead and copper, which are either shredded into pellets or re-smelted and purified. By the end of the process, only a tiny proportion of your car will end-up in a landfill.
You can be sure that your vehicle will be recycled and its components reused resulting in minimal harm to the environment.
