Auto Battery Scrap Recycling

Here at Cash 4 Cars Cleveland we support recycling of automobiles and their components. When we pay cash for cars we seek to ensure that vehicles are processed in a manner that is friendly to the environment. This should be a factor in your decision when seeking a junk car hauler and shopping scrap yards that buy cars. One issue of concern is what happens to old, scrap car batteries? Proper disposal of components from scrap cars and junk vehicles is critical in protecting the environment and ultimately to our health. On March 21, 2015 an LA Times article by Tony Barboza titled ‘Exide faces a long, costly cleanup of closed Vernon plant’ discussed the following: “Federal prosecutors struck a deal with Exide Technologies to close its battery recycling plant in Vernon & avoid criminal charges; the beginning of a long and costly cleanup. The plant leaves behind decades’ worth of pollution & hazardous waste, along with questions about how the mess will be taken care of. Exide’s March 11 agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office requires it to spend at least $50 million to demolish & clean the 15-acre facility that had melted down lead from used car batteries. Officials estimate it will take about 2 years for the company to remove buildings & structures. It will take at least 2 more years to study the extent of contamination at the Vernon site and clean it. Exide is required to put most of the cleanup money into trust funds in a series of payments over the next 5 years. The company has paid about $16 million so far. In April 2014 the LA County Dept of Public Health began a program to test for lead in the blood of residents who live near the plant. The testing, funded by Exide, is available to more than 100,000 people who live & work within about a two-mile radius of Exide.” The complete story is available at the following link: http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-exide-cleanup-20150321-story.html

The Exide plant is in Vernon, a city of only 100 residents, which is primarily an industrial area, situated a few miles south of Downtown LA. The plant is located about a block north of the Los Angeles River. The severity of the plant’s pollution as it relates to human health does not appear to have been fully measured. Either way, it seems that the company will be held accountable for the cleanup.

Cash 4 Cars Cleveland pays cash for cars in NE Ohio. We offer junk car hauler services in North Randall, Macedonia, Lyndhurst, Cuyahoga Heights and Highland Heights. We are among the scrap yards that buy cars in Richmond Heights, Streetsboro, Mentor, Willoughby, Berea, Middleburg Heights, Geauga County and most of Lorain County. To receive cash for cars in Euclid, Garfield Heights or Eastlake, feel free to call us for a junk car quote at (216) 359-1010. We have recently expanded our service area to allow for people outside of Cuyahoga County to sell their junk cars to us for cash. Are you looking for a junk car hauler in Parma Heights, Lakewood, Linndale Village or Newburgh Heights?  If seeking scrap yards that buy cars in Seven Hills, Beachwood or Bedford—we are the one to contact. Free towing is included in all our quotes to buy junk cars in Bentleyville Village, Tremont, Bratenahl and Chagrin Falls. Same-day removal of old cars is available in Mayfield Heights, South Euclid and Cleveland Heights if you contact us before 2PM. Do you live in Wickliffe, Brecksville, Bainbridge or East Cleveland and want to get cash for cars? The required documents for us to provide junk car hauler services in Chesterland, Moreland Hills, University Heights, Maple Heights and Warrensville Heights are the vehicle title and a photo ID.