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How Many Cars Were Recycled Last Year?

HOW MANY RECYCLED CARS LAST YEAR? TEN MILLION vehicles are recycled annually in the United States. 75% of the material in a vehicle is currently recycled. Number 1 Cars are the number one recycled product in the United States. 80 Million Barrels Recycling vehicles saves an estimated 80 million barrels of oil each year. 11 Million Tons Recycling a car keeps 11 million tons of steel and 800,000 non ferrous metals out of landfills and back in TONS consumer use. What's a Car Made Of? 1% other 1% Carpets (1% Electrical Parts 1% Battery 2% Rubber 2% Fluids 3% Glass 3% Tires 9% Plastics 8% Non-Ferrous Metal 69% Ferrous Metal 224 TRILLION Matchbox cars can be made from 10 Million recylced cars. The recycled metal from 1 Car can produce 22,400 Matchbox cars 224 Trillion Matchbox cars can be produced from 10 Million cars 224 Trillion Matchbox cars will stretch across the United States 56,600 Times 1 CAR EVERY SECOND 7012 YEARS If 1 Matchbox car is given to one child every second, it would take 7012 years to hand them out! 275 Milli@n Tires are stockpiled in junkyards in the US. have installed 100 US CitieS rubberized sidewalks. are recyled into 50 Million 20 Million Tires pounds of Road Surfaces. 50 Million Pounds of Athletic Field Surfaces are made from 4.5 Million tires. 80% of all scrap tires are used to nake recycled products. 2.7 Million Tires are recyled into 30 Million pounds of Playground Surfaces. A car that weighs 1.3 tons produced without plastics uses 1000 more liters of fuel in its life than a car weighing 1.1 tons produced with plastic Battery cases account for 5,000 of the 14,000 tons of automotive plastics recovered and recycled. However, it is estimated that 121,000 tons of plastics 12 V are currently land filled. Waste oil from almost million oil changes in the UK is currently not collected. Had this oil been collected, it could have met the annual energy requirements of 1.5 million people. Recycled Facts

How Many Cars Were Recycled Last Year?

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Recycling can be a good way to help the environment and to save money on taxes. Here is an infographic that shows how many cars were recycled last year.

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