Car Recycling 

A moment of a silence to all the rare, old school, or fancy cars that ended up getting shredded.

The plant rep has endless patience. Most folks would have tossed that dude into the car shredder about 5 minutes in.

The fact that the furnace is about the same temperature as the surface of the sun is absolutely mind-blowing.

Video looks like something you would watch in a 5th grade classroom in the 90s

A child asked his mother "What happens to a car when it is old and no good?" The mother replied "Someone sells it to your father"

The last thing I built before I retired was a car shredder in Tampa, FL. It cost 6.5 mill and from the time we turned the old one off to the time we turned the new one on was 6 weeks. The main body without the grinding wheel in it weighed 1 million pounds. The motor was 7k HP and ran on 14.7kv. A new electric substation had to be built for the new machine. The old one took 6 weeks to fill up a ship with steel and the new one took 6 days to fill the ship. There was always tons of coins laying all over the ground. The 18 hammers that pounded the cars to shreds weighs 900 lbs each and the wheel spun at 800 rpm.

This program was made for children, but you know what? You just successfully entertained a GROWN MAN. Good job.

If you got older cars from 00s and older, KEEP THEM! Don’t send them to extinction like this place

Those fun facts were physically painful

Thank you for giving us something educational and humble to watch

"Auto recycling reduces air pollution by 86%" What does that even mean? compared to just setting them on fire?

Cheyenne, when cars in my neighborhood don’t work anymore and you can’t fix them, they sit in people’s yards, waiting for the earth to reclaim them. They’re sometimes covered with a blue tarp.

The only steel mill in New England is in Rhode Island and generally operates at night only. It is an electric arc steel mill and because Rhode Island has such a surplus of power at night was why the steel mill was built here. This mill also manufactures rebar. Before I retired I use to haul trailer loads of rebar out of that mill 2 or 3 times a month. It been operating for over 25 years. Scrap is shipped in by truck and rail.

Well, I drive a 1994 Rover 214. A rare one now, as it's a three door. Still a dependable and comfortable, economical motor. Every time I go to our refuse tip or recycling centre, or even look at the trash bins around here, I'm reminded of what a wasteful world we live in. Found a 70's record player the other day and have repaired it, already have people interested in it ! I still have 5o's fridge too. The older stuff was generally better built than today's equipment, especially if the new item came from China. The really sad thing is that most refuse dumps won't let people take things away and "Reuse" them. So much for this Reduce Reuse Recycle crap.

You can always fix cars you just need the mind and tools unless it crushed tho

Dude I love this host. The only positive thing left on this earth xD

I always wondered what they did with those crushed cars. making rebar makes sense because there are too many different kinds of Steel being melted together and it would be too costly to get 100% of the Slag out.

What a quality video. Such amaze. that "Fact time fact time fact time" had me on the edge of my seat!!

I had a curiosity a few years ago after that run-a-way train ... explosive fire tragedy at Magentic in Québec, I wrote to both Alberta and one of the rail companies. I made reference to a then very popular T.V. commercial that showed crude oil tailings being dumped into a hopper where the hopper emptied onto a conveyor as the start of the process of reaping this oil harvest. I suggested that what the conveyor was carrying up a 45 or more degree angle to be dumped into the next part of the process, be dumped instead into an up-ended tank type rail car with modification to the rail-car, making the end removable. My purpose was and is, that if the crude were transported without the highly volatile solvents, this would be much safer. The top end-cap would be redesigned to be removeable and replicable to drop the material off the conveyor until the tank was full. Said tank car would then be lowered to horizontal, rolled to destination where emptying could be accomplished by tipping the rail-car so the opening is at the bottom along with using steam connected at the other end of the rail-car to both heat and force the crude out. I must have struck a chord because I have never seen that commercial since. I believe if crude oil were moved by rail car with the above modification to the tank car, and without the present solvents mixed in, a greater safety move will result! Even though we have never done it that way, should we explore this option, I believe we could realize less potential for fire and/or explosions of said tankers. Also, even if a derailment and rupture of said tank car happened, the cleanup of thick crude, I believe, could be realized easier than the present product mixed with solvents or sending the product through pipelines. thank you keep smiling / dennis dennisf.macintyre.d@gmail.com

have been nice to see the car actually being put into the crusher grinder or whatever you want to call that thing

This guy gets excited quite easily.

What an incredible operation.

So recycled cars become steel rebar that is used in buildings. Neat.

so this is what happened to Lightning McQueen

These are a great series of environmental videos that will teach kids the importance of recycling. Keep up the good work.

one day I saw 4 brand new Buick Enclaves go into a shredder.

Take tires off, windows out, any that can be reused. Use electromagnet pullout steel. Go through multiple shredders each getting smaller and smaller able separate easier. Takes up less space.

My heart is broken @7:45 im not sure what year but that trans am GTA l guess Between 1986 to 1990

Until couple weeks ago I owned a 1996 Plymouth Neon Sport Sedan 4D. Bought the car when it was 4 years old and owned it for 23 years so when I got rid of the car it was 27 years old. The car was having engine problems and was not worth fixing due to cost and it's age so I just let it go. While I owned the car it was a good little car I can't complain too much. At the time I got rid of it the car still had 95% of it's factory installed parts on it.

It's a shame that Pontiac GTA Trans Am wound up there that's a car you don't crush and recycle you restore it.

I replaced all our incandescent light bulbs with LED bulbs. We still have a few fluorescent bulbs but overall, our electric bill has been reduced a good amount. I put two LED floodlight bulbs on my shed that lights up where we park our car. Each one is 10 watts but still very bright.

i was amazed by the last fun fact whne they sayd that during w.w.2. they toook enough metal from corset that they mnage to build 2 warship, good god they must have been real tigh ship.

"Cheaper" alternative is relative. I've been to some places where they charge more than you could buy it new from the auto store.. Kinda surprised they're still in business.

7:46 that’s so sad:( poor firebird

Extreme engineering.i really want to work here...

Amazing recycling of cars.

I learned something. This guy is too much of a goober.

Rebar....the BEST use in the world for Toyota's!!!!

Oh I feel queezy, was talking to my mum about what happened to crushed cars & found this video, when he was going on about the melting process & "tapping the heat" my stomach went as literally at 2am this morning I was watching Mr Ballens latest video in which 5 of 6 men were killed in 2017, after a blockage dislodged releasing the liquefied coal slag.

why did they interview the same people over and over. They knew nothing every single time.

I once saw a railroad gondola car full with shredded automobile at Fullerton, California train station... That must have weighed an un-Godly amount of weight! You could smell the motor oil from all of that metal. Amazing how much weight can be moved by rail.

Car guys have A REALLY hard time watching this sort of thing....... I mean that Camaro...... The black firebird..... Then he jumps on the hood.......🤦🤦

All the energy created to light up Los Angeles for 10 years😂. Yeah right, explain the rolling blackouts 🤔

Mostly American cars ... you don't see Japanese cars here because in different departments called recycling rust

The host's uncle must own the video company.

something feels state-sponsored about this video

Host: Look at me! I've got a hard hat, safety specs and a high-viz jacket!

I wish there was more on the shredder and downstream the hammermill and eddy current belts and airtables are very interesting

Neat :) Always wondered where/how they used all the stuff we separate to recycle :)

I've hauled rebar out of CMC Steel in Seguin, Texas and bar steel out of Nucor Steel Bar Mill in Jewett, Texas. They load you up with some hot steel.

San Bernardino, California is my hometown (born & raised) - but left there in 1993.

Host: "Wow....oh my goodness...wow...really?...wow...oh my goodness...wow...really?...oh my goodness"

I wish Steve Brule would have hosted this 😂 "Let's check it out!"

Oh what a waste!! Some cars still had tires, rims, tailights and a grill on them!! No wonder people can't find replacement parts for their older cars! How terrible!!

I would like to see a new video about how to recycle cars it's very interesting and cool how it's done. If I had a recycling business I would strip the car to Bare Steel then put it in the shredder but anyway you do it is still awesome

24:38 The baked beans were with us all along

@12:17 the fence keeps people from walking into the molten metal waterfall. When you have to carry hot metal buckets of slag down to the river. Those poor fishes just melt and boil.

I watched this documentary about a killer robot from the future sent back to the 1980s to terminate a guy. It was destroyed by putting it into a furnace like that.

If they would pull the glass out of them you can recycle that as well. Shredder equals Hammer mill. Rebar is short for reinforcement bar

A lot of 80’s-90’s cars. Must have been early 2000’s.

You entertain us, Funny Joe!

what's lacking in the whole recycling idea is the will to do it

Great show. Very interesting.

Cars should not be as disposable as they are in today's society. Those scrapyards are far from green.

Very interesting documentary about car recycling.

Very informative and educational conrent

CLASSIC cars should not be "recycled" they should be RESTORED. Nothing makes me more angry than folks reducing the already low numbers of the classics.

About anything metal will go to the shredder or steel mill ! They take it all !

This is so badass!!!!

Seems like there's some excess heat that could recovered for energy.

Who dislikes a car recycling video?

Cool stuff😎👍🏻.

so much energy used just makes anyone wonder where is the profit. Geesh, from employees to packaging. just wow.

I have done this for 22 years..fun interesting job

Imagine getting pranked by somebody who works at this company: Hey...what did you do with my car?

Car can last for ever if well maintained.

Always wondered! Thanks.

i saw way too many complete classic american cars in this yard, 60s - 80s.

I operate an industrial plastic shredder, this would be cool to operate.

Ok for steel, but plastic, rubber, glass, fiber, Electric and electrinic parts etc are missing

What happens to old cars? My neighbor out the road puts them on blocks in his front yard. Seriously, I'm not sure if it's an art project or if he's trying to piss people off...

We have a mobile crusher and mini shredder but on crushed cars we use hay wrap to contain the debris if you have ever unwrapped a round bale of hayvyou knownthat stuff sticks to anything if lost so many shirt buttons earbuds sleeve buttons very effective i imagine much cheaper than construction netting like in the video

Reporter: “what is a billet” Girl: “a dog without a tail” Ok then

Useful information

How many cars per 1000 feet of rebar..?

Incredible process!

I didnt expect curiosity quest lol, i like this show.

So is that all that a car is good for when being recycled is making rebar?

This host sounds like Barney Fife. " Andy, Opie's up the dang tree again! "

It must never get cold there

What do they do with car engines

7:30 Oh my god it's a pontiac trans sport minivan in the back!

Anybody else feel that uncomfortable sense of embarrassment for that dippy reporter?

If you mute this it’s actually a decent watch.

7:49 in back left /1970 pontiac tempest [blue] you cant'''''''' buy a nose for these/waste

You guys, go easy on the script and the host. This was made for children. :)

Always great content, ALWAYS too long. Why?

Yes thats true but most car recycling documentarys dont even bother to show the foundrys that melt down the crushed shredded cars and show and explain how its melted down cast rolled out squeezed cooled and cut into the finished product.

That poor white Camaro that hurts

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