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Jim DeFreece Auto Recyclers was the proud recipient of the 1998 Environmental Awards for Waste Reduction and Recycling presented by the City of Lincoln and Lancaster County Health Department.
Jim
DeFreece Auto Recyclers is an automotive recycling center. They
purchase wrecked vehicles for dismantling purposes and scrap iron.
Automotive
recycling has evolved into a refined market and technology-driven
industry that constantly changes to keep side by side of innovations in
automotive technology and manufacturing techniques. Rather than merely
crushing wrecked, abandoned, and mechanically disabled vehicles,
today's modern recycling facilities have a definitive operational
scheme that maximizes the vehicle's true market value, all the while
providing an economic and environmental benefit to the community.
In
a typical modern recycling business, inoperative vehicles are brought
into a facility where the hazardous and recyclable fluids are properly
drained. Undamaged parts are then dismantled from the vehicle,
cleaned, tested, inventoried and stored in a warehouse until sold. The
remaining vehicle body is then prepared for scrapping (see picture
below).
Automotive recycling serves a vital role in preserving
natural resources and reducing the demand for scarce landfill space.
For example, " each year approximately 95 percent of vehicles
retired from use are processed for recycling. The recycling of these
vehicles saves an estimated 85 million barrels of oil that would have
been used in the manufacturing of new or replacement parts. Additional
energy and resource conservation is realized by recycling rebuildable
"core" parts to the automotive parts rebuilding industry" (ARA 2008)
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