Recycling car parts
Incredibly vehicle part consumers insist on genuine recycled vehicle manufacturer parts as opposed to replica parts from a third party. The message is clear. The market demands RECYCLED VEHICLE PARTS. The market determines that recycles used car, and van parts are the quality standard it seeks.
This is also in line with the global movement for green environmental pressures which incorporates better fuel efficient engines, higher performance car batteries, and the recycling of all major vehicle components.
So great is the demand, that supply is a key challenge. Ask any member of the motor vehicle dismantlers association as a UK vehicle dismantler and they will quickly confirm how much effort they have to put into maintaining a steady supply of quality vehicle parts. At present, about 75% of the scrap from old cars is recycled, while the remaining parts usually end up in landfill sites, according to Professor Allan Hutchinson, author of a project report carrried by Oxford Brookes University in 2007 which predicts that more cars will be built in the next 25 years than in the entire history of cars, as a result of demand in emerging economies such as Russia, India and China.
How the new Government initiative called the ‘UK Car Scrappage Scheme’ will impact on the environment is still unclear but any move to support recycling has to be supported.
Julian Rowe, Business Correspondent, Business Service Finder
