Auto Shredder Residue (ASR) Explained: Everything You Need To Know
After a depolluted vehicle has been shredded and its ferrous and non-ferrous metals separated, approximately 20 to 25 percent of the original vehicle weight remains as a heterogeneous mixed material called auto shredder residue (ASR). Also referred to as automotive shredder fluff, shredder light fraction, or fluff, ASR is the primary unresolved environmental challenge in […]
What Percentage of a Car Is Recyclable? A Material-by-Material Breakdown
Approximately 80 to 85 percent of a car by weight is recyclable, making the automobile one of the most recycled consumer products in the world. The remaining 15 to 20 percent, the materials that cannot currently be recovered at scale, ends up as automotive shredder residue, a mixed stream of plastics, foam, glass, and rubber […]
Safe Disposal of Toxic Car Fluids: Where to Take Each Type and What Never to Do
If you have done your own oil change, flushed the coolant, drained the brake fluid, or removed fuel from a tank before a sale or junkyard pickup, you have produced automotive fluids that cannot go into household trash, down a sink drain, into a storm drain, or onto the ground. Every automotive fluid produced during […]