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11.22.09

Recyclable Cars

Cars are (surprisingly) the world's most recycled product. Find out which parts of your car end up as landfill, and which parts don't

By Alison Lakin, Associate Editor, DriverSide.com Posted 05.08.2009 at 1:18 pm 1 Comment

Each year, around 10 million vehicles are disposed of in the United States. Before vexing your conscience though, you should know that over 95 percent of these “retired” cars head straight to one of the 7,000 vehicle recycling operations around the country and 75 percent of these cars' parts are completely recycled, letting cars claim top spot as the world's most recycled product.

DriverSide explores what happens to these automotive materials.

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Earth Day on the Highway

Our friends at Driverside.com explore what this little piece of history means for the future of green car technology and environmental awareness in the automotive industry

By Jon Alain Guzik and Alison Lakin Posted 04.22.2009 at 12:28 pm 3 Comments

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the words environmental and green were hardly a blip on America’s radar. There were no catalytic converters, no smog emissions, none of the checks we have on automobiles now. Most of the vehicles on the road were powered by V-8 engines and guzzled filthy leaded gasoline. Their poor gas mileage wasn’t even a consideration.

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