If all the missing copper does not disappoint you, then the demand for scrap metal is unusually high these days. To meet this demand, end-of-life vehicles are broken down into their basic materials so that they can be recycled through car shredders. It is so huge that it is not measured in tons but in acres.

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The £10 million LYNXS car shredder is a cutting-edge machine. A metal recycling facility worth £15.5 million has been installed at the U.K. Union Port Terminal in Newport, Wales. It is operated by the Sims Group of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest facilities of its kind in the world and has been in operation since 2006.

The working principle of LYNXS is very much like a traditional paper shredder, even though it is only as big as Thunder Dragon. The car is first crushed to reduce its volume, and then sent into the machine. The feed pipe allows large pieces of waste to pass through the crushing zone, while the two-roller compression feeder prevents too much material from hitting the crusher at the same time and blocking the mechanism. A series of huge, fast-rotating hammers — powered by a 40-ton, 11KV, 9,200HP high-voltage electric motor — ripped the vehicle into fist-sized pieces. LYNXS can digest 450 cars per hour—approximately 350 tons of materials. It is so big and so powerful that it must be directly connected to the Welsh National Grid to draw enough current.

According to the LYNXS website, what comes out of the paper shredder is "high-density uniform shreds." The machine can handle a variety of materials. After shredding, plastic, rubber, carpet and glass fragments are separated from metal fragments and sent for separate recycling. Metals, copper, ferrous and non-ferrous metal scraps and aluminum are subsequently exported to the world (so the factory is located near the port terminal). Approximately 60% will arrive in Southeast Asia, where the demand for scrap is highest. The company exports approximately 2.5 million tons of metal annually.

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Tom Bird, managing director of Sims Group UK, described the site as "there is no doubt Europe's premier metal recycling site... This site used to have only 12 employees and processes 2,000 tons of materials per month. Now it processes 50,000 tons of materials per month. .Month." It was a lot of dead cars and refrigerators. [Car Express-Wikipedia-LetsRecycle-LYNX Shredder-WEG]

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