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No longer are auto salvage yards the dumping grounds for acres of scrapped vehicles rusting in roadside junk-piles. "Junkyard is a word we don't like to hear," says Barbara Utter, Executive Director of Automotive Recyclers of Michigan. (ARM) She's proud of what this association has accomplished and with good reason. Salvage yards in her state and in many others, are now following and often exceeding the strict federal, state and local regulations that have transformed this industry--the nation's sixth largest.

"We have to comply with 26 standards, which we along with the Automotive Recylers Association have proactively developed," says Utter. They include business;environmental; safety; and licensing and regulatory standards.Compliance with these standards enables ARM members to be certified by the State of Michigan.

There's Skeletons in this Business

It's this huge enterprise, mainly comprised of small, independent businesses, which is responsible for annually crushing and recycling 14 million tons of steel nationwide. "This steel comes from end- of-life vehicles," says Utter. Where does it go? "After huge crushing machines, often located in the companies' salvage yards, compress a vehicle into scrap metal, it's sold and sent to smelting factories where it's melted down and processed back into steel. Persons driving a brand new car or truck often don't realize that their vehicle was once the skeleton of an old clunker. It's no accident that the automobile is the most recycled product in the world. Ninety percent can be reused.

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