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Originally Posted by Maelochs
Right, and Some of the shredded metal might get recycled.

The same can be said for bikes, though---most are stripped for any good parts, and the metal, either Al or steel, can be recycled.

Here again people looking to argue and nitpick miss the point by so far it is hard to imagine.

Cars are BIGGER and MORE MASSIVE than bikes ... by a small bit. Therefore they produce MORE WASTE when recycled/discarded---however they are processed.

if you want to argue that there is more matter in a 26-lb bicycle than a 3600-lb car, go ahead. If you want to explain how that matter is hyper-compressed into neutron sludge or something in a crusher, provide documentation. Otherwise, cars take up more space.

This isn't something that we should be arguing, eh? Cars are bigger than bikes. If we cannot agree on that ... well, at least one of us has a pretty big problem.
I'm not arguing that autos don't have a bigger footprint in the world and ultimately most bikes get recycled, (although CF is likely changing that scenario) but that you seem to think that autos are minimally recycled when the fact is they are one of the most recycled consumer products out there, and have been for decades.
For example your statement. Some of the shredded metal might get recycled.
That's total BS. If a car makes it to a metal recycler, it is being reused plain and simple. Scrap does not make any money for the recycler sitting.

Every year, more than 18 million tons of steel from automobiles are recycled by the steel industry. Approximately, 86 percent of a car’s material content is recycled, reused or used for energy recovery.
About 60 percent of a passenger vehicle consists of steel and iron. The steel used to make a brand new car contains at least 25 percent of recycled content.

https://www.thebalancesmb.com/auto-r...lenges-4011892
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