If you listen to the radio for any time at all in the car, you've probably heard about the opportunity to recycle your unused automobiles for cash or tax credits. When you have a car that you're not using anymore, that car needs to go somewhere. Having a nonfunctional car on your property is one of the biggest ways to reduce your property value, too. You'll want to get that old car out of there as quickly as you can. Nonfunctioning cars are a danger to wildlife and cost you money in the form of higher insurance rates and premiums. According to Live About, auto recycling salvages enough steel for almost 13 million new cars every year and generates jobs for 46,000 people. This means your recycled car can still do its part!

Reduces Landfill Space

Recycling cars greatly reduce the amount of land that needs to be taken up with landfill. Every car, even compacted, takes up dozens to hundreds of square feet in a landfill. When you sell your cars for cash, the frame goes to be dismantled and recycled into new steel for new cars and other projects, while the other parts are distributed to spare parts stores across the country. Very little of your old vehicle will reach a landfill this way. Most cars can find a new life in other cars.

Reduces the Need to Mine

When you sell your cars for cash, the leftover steel of the junk vehicle goes back into the automotive industry. Car builders have the steel melted down and have it re-made into new steel parts for new cars. Without the parts of old cars, new cars have to be made of all-new steel.

Saves Fossil Fuel Expenses

Mining and iron forging is an expensive process that uses oil and coal fuels at every step. These contribute to fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions, a critical greenhouse gas. When you recycle your car, you reduce the load on the environment by reducing the amount of CO2 and methane being emitted into the air. This ultimately means a cooler planet and cleaner air for all of us.

Protects Wildlife

Wildlife like to nest in dead cars. The springs and cloth seats that used to be where you'd sit while driving? Those are still soft and other animals besides humans like to sit in soft places. So the cars represent attractive traps for animals large enough to get into them. Many destroyed cars also still have poisonous fuels in them that can leak into the environment and even the best scrapyard can't get all the fluids out of a damaged car. You can bet that your old car will be safer if it's dismantled for parts than if it's around to trap and sicken wildlife for the rest of its days in a junkyard. Do the responsible thing and recycle.

Conserves Your Resources

A car contains tires, glass, batteries, rubber hoses, belts, and more. Most of these pieces can be recycled by themselves. Used auto parts are a huge business that benefits recyclers, manufacturers, and drivers on the road. By saving other drivers money with your low-mileage auto parts, you're making it possible for those drivers to avoid using new materials, reducing the pressure on the planet to provide more resources. Ultimately, this benefits you because those resources will be around later when you sell your cars for cash.

Takes Advantage of a Billion Dollar Industry

When you sell your cars for cash, you'll be part of a thriving industry that last year made $22 billion. The auto recycling industry on an annual basis pays $3.3 billion in wages to over 103 thousand people working for more than 8,260 small and large businesses, according to Wheels for Wishes. Auto recycling also saves you money in other ways. Getting inoperative vehicles off the books of insurance companies allows those companies to offer you lower insurance rates.

If you have a car sitting around on your property, you should seriously think about recycling it. If you don't know where to start selling cars for cash, give us a call today at Fast Cash For Cars. A new way to protect the planet, protect wildlife, and protect your wallet, all at the same time? Sounds like a win!