How to Sort and Prepare Your Waste for Removal

Your creaky, ancient car has been parked in the driveway for years. So you finally decide to get in touch with a car scrapping company. But before they get here, you take it upon yourself to get your scrap car ready for the scrapping process.

Don’t know how to sort all the scrap materials from your car in an organized manner? Here’s what you should do!

Ferrous Metals

Ferrous metals have high durability and tensile strength. This makes them the perfect material during car manufacturing. If you’re getting ready to prepare your car for scrapping, make sure to collect the ferrous metals in one recycling bin. For instance, steel is a ferrous metal. So dismantle your car’s brakes, wheels and roof to put them in the ferrous metal bin. Exercise proper caution while dismantling these car parts. You don’t want to end up with an injury while trying to pry apart the braking system.

Non–Ferrous Metals

Non-ferrous metals don’t contain any traces of iron in them. This makes them highly resistant to rust and corrosion, as compared to the ferrous metals. So before you contact the car scrapping company, make sure you collect these metals in a separate bin. Take apart your car’s aluminum rims, engine and copper wiring.

Similarly, you can also conduct a magnet test to make sure you get all the non-ferrous metals in the recycling bin. As a rule of thumb, any metal that doesn’t stick to the magnet is a non-ferrous metal.

Plastic Parts

The plastic parts of your car include lights, bumpers, dashboard and gas tank. They are usually removed before the shredding process at the junk car recycling facility. But if you want, you can also remove these plastic materials yourself beforehand. These will then be melted down to produce new plastic products.

Though fun, removing all the parts of your car for scrapping can be a long, complicated process. It can also be dangerous, considering you have to dismantle all the car parts yourself.

If you’re looking for scrap car removal services in Surrey, get in touch with Noble Towing. We’re experienced in providing 24/7 towing and vehicle scrapping services across Vancouver. Our team of experts will be more than willing to tow your scrap car from your home and pay you cash in return.

For more details about services, contact us today!