Thank You Alberta Automotive Recyclers

Seventy-five per cent of an average car’s content by weight can be recycled, and thanks to some environmentally responsible automotive recyclers that’s exactly what is happening to many older, higher polluting vehicles in Alberta. 

Vehicles that are 1995 model year or older produce 19 times more smog-forming pollutants than those made since 2004.  Retire Your Ride, Canada’s new vehicle recycling program, rewards vehicle owners for getting their high-polluting cars off the road and ensures that these vehicles are recycled responsibly.

  “It’s important to get these older vehicles off the road, but equally as important that they are recycled in an environmentally responsible manner,” says Pamela Koss, Program Director for Retire Your Ride at Climate Change Central.  “It’s great to have automotive recyclers from around the province helping to make this happen.” 

By following a code of practice to ensure vehicles are permanently and responsibly retired and recycled, automotive recyclers remove materials such as oil, gasoline, refrigerants, mercury switches and tires from the cars prior to scrappage and reuse components of the vehicle that are safe to reclaim.  This ensures that hazardous materials do not end up seeping into the ground, being released into the air, or leaked into the water.

Automotive recyclers in Alberta who have partnered with the program include A1 Willy's Parts Place, Aldon Auto Salvage Ltd, Allwest Auto Parts, Camrose Auto Wreckers Ltd, Dimsdale Auto Parts Ltd, Foothills Mechanical and Towing, Grove Auto & Truck Parts Ltd, Lethbridge Auto Parts, Reg's Auto Wreckers, Superior Auto Parts, Vermilion Valley Auto Parts Ltd and Waymore Auto Recycling.

Retire Your Ride is an initiative of The Government of Canada, Clean Air Foundation and its partners and is managed and delivered locally by Climate Change Central.  To become a recycler for the Retire Your Ride, or for more information, please visit www.RetireYourRide.ca or call 1-877-773-1996.