Green live refers to activities that contribute to minimize or eliminate the toxins from the environment and improved personal health and vitality. There are many activities that can have a positive impact on the environment, such as eating organic foods, choose paper bags instead of plastic bags, recycling beer cans, put environmentally friendly floor in your home or driving a fuel-efficient car. A recent policy bring the recycling of automobiles to achieve greener environment.
When the majority of cars have outlived their usefulness, they are taken to the scrap yards where the cars are shredded and by topic (mainly composed of iron and steel) is then recycled back to the cars, appliances and other products. Cars make one of the most recycled products in the world and three of every four tonnes of new steel from recycled steel. Other parts of the car such as brake pads, shoes, oil filters, rubber bearing seals, polyurethane foam seat, seat covers, floor mats, wheels, windshield glass and the side glass can also be recycled for use in new vehicles.
Automobile recycling provides countless benefits to the environment. It helps preserve natural resources and protects the environment from pollution by recycling usable components and parts. It helps reduce water and air pollution, and saves landfill space. The automobile recycling minimizes the need for processing virgin material, it helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, particularly sulfur dioxide that have adverse effects on the environment and human health.
Automobile recycling uses far less energy than that required for the production car. This, in turn, reduces the amount of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and other carbon molecules into the atmosphere and helps protect valuable reserves of gas, coal and oil. Recycling vehicles and their spare parts can save as much as 80 million barrels of oil and 40,000 tons of coal per year.
Automobile recycling helps save energy as recycling one kilogram of steel saves enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for 85 hours. Recycling automotive glass (windshields and sunroofs) helps reduce water pollution by 45 percent and air pollution by 25 percent. Recycling of metal saves up to 70 percent energy and 30 percent water. Recycling one ton of oil filters not only save 9 cubic yards of landfill space, but it also provides 1,700 pounds of steel. Recycling oil filters prevent petroleum hydrocarbons from contaminating water, air and soil. It helps to reduce water of about 75 percent and about 80 percent air. Recycling brake pads and shoes produces a mixture of synthetic materials and copper.
Auto recycling should manage recycling activities in the trash meters to reduce the risk of dropping harmful petroleum compounds and toxic substances into the environment. Heavy metals such as cadmium, lead, arsenic, mercury, aluminum and chromium should not be allowed to leach into the ground. Similarly, the acids from solvents, batteries and solvents must be disposed of as they may interfere with the chemistry of the soil and create health hazards for marine life as well as humans.