Revive! proudly supports Global Car Recycling Day

As the worlds most popular transport, the car has always been the dominant force on not just the UKs roads but world-wide. It’s become clear, that while most countries love their cars, at the end of the vehicles’ lives they are not always shown the same love, and neither is the environment. While many countries do make efforts to recycle vehicles once they reach the end of the road, such as removing reusable parts and disposing of any hazardous chemicals in safe and environmentally friendly way, many countries simply leave their vehicles to rust or just crush vehicles on the spot this not only damages the environment but leaves the vehicle to continue polluting the planet even though it may never turn another wheel.

Global Car Recycling Day is driven by international car recycling experts CarTakeBack, which operates in conjunction with government agencies, numerous leading vehicle manufacturers, hundreds of recyclers, world-leading recycling experts and most importantly serves climate-conscious customers, who felt it was vital to draw more attention to this unique recycling issue across the world and Global Car Recycling Day was born.

Revive! as an automotive SMART repairer helps the environment by reducing the requirement of new parts being manufactured. Where a body shop may decide to remove and replace and entire panel with a newly manufactured one (as required by many insurance companies) leading to long wait times, increased hire car fees and increased insurance premiums, Revive! repairs the original panel to return it to the condition it was when it left the factory, thus removing the need for remanufactured parts.

Global Car Recycling Day Goals

It’s easy to see how vital responsible car recycling is to the environment, and to a sustainable car industry, when you see how each of part of Global Car Recycling Day’s goals link together and affect each other.

• Regulations: Good intentions are not enough to regulate an entire industry. Responsible car recycling across the globe must be legislated to fully protect the environment from the impact of end-of-life vehicles. Comprehensive car recycling regulations are needed in every country, with support for the infrastructure in emerging economies.

• Car Owner Choice: Ideally, only businesses able to offer a legal, responsible car recycling service would be available. But currently, in the majority of countries, the public need to research where their car ends up. To support regulated car recycling, car owners need to make the right decision for their end-of-life vehicle and where that choice isn’t available, put pressure on their car’s manufacturer or the government’s environment department to help.

• Depollution: A key part of responsible recycling is the depollution of a vehicle. Every car contains harmful chemicals and toxins that could significantly damage the environment. Fuel, brake fluid, coolant, oil even windscreen washer fluids have to be safely removed from vehicles, stored and sent to specialist recyclers for processing.

• Reusable parts removal: Energy and raw materials can be saved by reconditioning existing car parts, where possible engines, batteries, tyres, transmission systems and even windscreens and mirrors may be salvaged to get the maximum life out of them and avoid new manufacturing processes.

• Separation and Processing: Once a car has been depolluted, parts removed, crushed and shredded, what completes effective car recycling is separation and innovative processing. Shredded vehicles should be separated into metals, glass, plastics and fabrics, specialist recyclers can then create high quality materials from those sources.

• Recycled materials in new car manufacturing: For effective car recycling, salvaged and recycled materials need to be used in new car manufacture. Car brands are already investing in these circular economies to protect their industry and the environment recycled materials provide a solution to the resource crisis we face as a globe, while providing the quality, safety, durability and even luxury that car makes promote.

• Sustainable Car Industry: Making the car industry truly sustainable goes beyond recycling vehicles at the end of their life. Materials recyclability, disassembly, separation and re-use must be planned from conception. When car manufacturers achieve circular economies, a sustainable car industry can be achieved across the globe.

For more information about Global Car Recycling Day please visit: globalcarrecyclingday.com/

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