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The Automotive Recyclers Association & Robertson Auto Salvage

Post by: Raphael Grovers January 18, 2022 0 Comments Auto Recycling, Benefits of Recycled Used Auto Parts, Online Auto Parts, Salvage Yards

Did you know that the Automotive Recyclers Association, or ARA for short, is the voice of the automotive recycling industry including auto salvage yards in MA and across the country? The ARA has gone a long way in establishing a set of rules and regulations that automotive recyclers must follow. Of course, these rules and regulations have many beneficial effects on society. Those effects are including helping the economy, promoting jobs, and protecting the environment.

The ARA is fully dedicated to ensuring that recycled auto parts are properly removed from vehicles that no longer operate. The ARA is committed to making certain that the original manufactured auto parts that are removed from vehicles. They also see that these parts are properly recycled. That way, consumers do not need to worry about the recycled auto parts working when installing them in their vehicles. In essence, the ARA goes a long way in helping consumers by ensuring that their members are conducting business properly.

The next time you’re at a local salvage yard, like Robertson’s Auto Salvage, make sure that they are members of the ARA. If not, you simply cannot trust that their recycled auto parts are up to par. Here’s an interesting fact for you to think about. A recent Worcester Polytechnic Institute study looks at how auto recyclers affect the carbon footprint in Massachusetts. The study states that salvage yards that are members of the Automotive Recyclers of Massachusetts, process over 165,000 vehicles per year. Automobiles are the most recycled item in the United States.

The ARA also helps the job market. When your local salvage yard joins the ARA, they must follow the highest standards when conducting business. Those high standards help them beat the competition, which means they stay in business longer. In fact, ARA members employ well over 140,000 people at approximately 9,000 businesses across the country. The ARA also helps the economy by helping consumers save money on auto parts.

Robertson Auto Salvage

We have been supplying local businesses and consumers’ quality recycled automotive parts since 1969. Our extended warranties are valid on many recycled auto parts. We pay top dollar for junk cars in Southeastern Massachusetts.

Robertson’s Auto Salvage also sells a wide range of recycled auto parts. These parts include rear bumpers, front and rear driveshafts, mirrors, wheels, headlamps, and fuel sending units. We look forward to working with you.

The Benefits of Recycled Used Auto Parts

Post by: Aaaron Cuttingham January 5, 2022 0 Comments Auto Parts Online, Auto Recycling, Benefits of Recycled Used Auto Parts, Online Auto Parts, Salvage Yards

Re-Think Recycled Used Auto Parts

Folks don’t always understand what service that genuine automotive parts recyclers provide. They often vision the old junkyard. They categorize all vehicle recycling facilities as junkyards. Robertsons Auto Salvage is an automotive recycling facility. Visitors need to come to an understanding of its environmental importance. The effects of how vehicles are disposed of can be seen in our land, water, and air quality.

Recycling Automobiles in 2022

Did you know that automobiles are the number one recycled product in the United States? Recycling saves over 90 million barrels of oil. Recycling steel reduces air pollution by 85%, water use by 40%, and water pollution by 97%. Batteries, refrigerants, fluids, aluminum, and mercury switches are always safely disposed of and/or recycled accordingly by accredited recycling facilities.

Vehicle Disposal in 2022

Robertson Auto Salvage uses the industry’s best standards in acquiring, evaluating, dismantling, and disposing of the end-of-life and total loss vehicles. Our partners have developed and implemented best-in-class standards that ensure damaged and discarded vehicles are being handled with the best ethical and environmentally prudent practices.

This is important because over 11 million vehicles are taken off the road in the US each year. They require processing and recycling. Our inventories are acquired through several methods and sources. The primary source is salvage auctions with most vehicles being supplied by the insurance industry. These vehicles have been determined as economically or structurally incapable of being returned to a safe or reliable operating condition.
Re-Think ReCycled Used Auto Parts. Reduce, reuse and recycle is what we do every day.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute study looks at how auto recyclers affect Massachusetts' carbon footprint

Post by: Aaaron Cuttingham December 16, 2021 0 Comments

Automotive Recyclers of Massachusetts members reduce the state’s carbon footprint by at least 2.2 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, study says.

By reclaiming auto parts for reuse, then recycling the steel and aluminum left in vehicles at the end of their lives, members of the Automotive Recyclers of Massachusetts (ARM), Southbridge, Massachusetts, reduce the state’s carbon footprint by at least 2.2 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, according to a new study completed at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).

“Our members are focused on recycling every day, but this is the first time we have verified the collective positive impact our industry has on the Massachusetts environment,” says Scott Robertson Jr., a director of ARM and a member of the Executive Committee of the Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA), Manassas, Virginia, which represents the industry globally. “We are fortunate to have the world-class expertise of WPI and the Metal Processing Institute here in Massachusetts to take on this analysis.”

The study, “Assessing the Environmental Impact of Automotive Recyclers of Massachusetts,” was sponsored by ARM and conducted independently by four WPI seniors as their major qualifying project to complete their degrees in mechanical engineering.

“What the automotive recyclers are doing is saving materials, saving energy and impacting the environment in a positive way, thus adding value to the economy of the state,” says Professor Brajendra Mishra, Ph.D., director of the Metal Processing Institute at WPI and advisor for the study.

Through site visits and a survey of ARM member companies, the WPI team examined operations at auto recycling facilities across Massachusetts and documented their processes for reclaiming auto parts, recycling metals and capturing fluids such oil, gasoline and antifreeze to process properly.

The study found an estimated 165,000 vehicles are recycled by ARM members in a typical year. The team calculated the energy saved by reusing auto parts from those vehicles, like engines and transmissions versus manufacturing new parts. They also calculated the energy saved by recycling the steel and aluminum left in the vehicles rather than mining ores and refining new metals. That analysis showed 2.2 million tons of the leading greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), was saved by reducing the need to refine new materials and manufacture new auto parts.

By putting metals and useable parts back into the automotive supply chain, ARM companies help drive a circular economy in auto manufacturing, Mishra says. “We make a car. We use a car, and we completely recycle the car so the materials stay in the system, in a circle, and we want to do that for as long as we can.”

Fostering a circular economy across many industries is vital for the long-term sustainability of our society, Mishra adds. “The total primary resource available on the Earth is going down. The quality of these resources is going down. Whereas, with the increase in population, the demand for materials is increasing, so we have no other choice but to recycle these materials and put them back into the system,” he says.

The full study and a video interview with Mishra are available at http://bit.ly/2xzEjwf.

This article originally appeared here: Recycling Today

Growing up attending school in Massachusetts, I was taught about Paul Revere’s midnight ride...

Post by: GDMadmin September 26, 2020 0 Comments Auto Recycling, Online Auto Parts, Recycling, Salvage Yard, Salvage Yards

Growing up attending school in Massachusetts, I was taught about Paul Revere’s midnight ride to alert colonial militia of British forces. Today, I wonder what would have become of our nation if our forefathers did not act and were unprepared for arrival of the mightiest army in the world. Fast forward 245 years; our industry needs to be rallied, just as were the revolutionary forces, in order to be prepared to fight for the rights of ROE–Recycled Original Equipment® auto parts in vehicle repairs.

ARA, recognized as the eyes, ears, and voice of the automotive recycling industry, is in constant communication with Federal and State government agencies, other trade associations, industry standards groups, political groups, and recycling industry committees to protect the rights of businesses that offer ROE–Recycled Original Equipment®. It seems like daily, ARA’s Executive Director Sandy Blalock and the ARA staff listen to meetings, take notes, give input, and answer questions about our industry. Some days we get hit on all sides, other days it is smooth sailing, but often it seems like we run from fire to fire.

One of ARA’s strategic pillars to serve the auto recycling industry is to provide leading-edge training so that company’s that sell ROE may remain in good standing with regulatory obligations and utilize best business practices. This is not only accomplished through ARA University (arauniversity.org) – ARA’s premier training platform for workforce advancement – but also through ARA committees, such as the ARA Certification Committee, and our annual ARA Convention & Exposition.

This year, we saw widespread cancellation of all in-person industry shows across the U.S., and the world for that matter, due to COVID-19. Recently, we announced that the ARA in-person event, Reno 2020, was also subject to the times. Yet, the show must go on.

It’s all hands on deck, with every ARA staff member tasked with making this first-of-its-kind show a huge success.

And now, with no travel time or expense, you really have no excuse not to attend or not to involve your team in the experience, as well. We are making it very cost-effective to do so!

As auto recyclers, many of us are fortunate to have a state association, or if you are outside of the USA, a regional and national association, to represent our best interests. These groups rely heavily on expos to fund their budgets in an effort to keep membership dues low. Operating an association is not cheap, it takes real money to pay overhead and expenses to properly represent members. ARA recognizes the damage COVID-19 imposed on the budgets of our state affiliates. Therefore, there will be fundraising activities during Edge 2020 to help affiliates who have lost income from canceled events. I am personally asking that if you can dig deep into your pocket, please help. They are the “eyes” of the industry for potential issues that could become national ones if not addressed at the state level. I will even go as far to say that if your paycheck relies on the sale of ROE parts, please consider a donation when asked.

Just imagine not having an industry association … it’s not easy to go it alone. We would no longer have representation at conferences and government agency meetings. We would no longer have input on how proposed regulations affect our businesses. Each of us will be left standing without a ticket to the show or a seat at the table while others carelessly dictate our fate. I can’t even imagine what would become of our industry. We are far better off with a unified representation and working together on all levels in bettering our own automotive recycling industry.

Let’s Circle Back to Look at American History

The signal was posted through Boston’s Old North Church cand Paul Revere carried the message of invasion to our forefathers – and they won their independence. Be on the lookout, ARA is our Paul Revere. The message to you right now is to get engaged to improve our industry and actively defend your ability to sell original equipment parts. Without sounding too trite, the message for today could simply be, “The OEMs are coming, the OEMs are coming.” Are you ready?

Robertson’s Auto Salvage - Following Bill Gates’ Lead to Succeed

Post by: GDMadmin July 1, 2015 0 Comments change with the times

Scott Robertson Jr., owner of Robertson’s Auto Salvage in Wareham, Mass., does not have Gates’ name recognition – or his fortune – but the two share a common philosophy about business competition and success.

Robertson’s, a family-owned and operated salvage yard since 1969, has survived and prospered through at least half a dozen recessions, the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s, the Clean Water Act, depressed scrap prices, and more. Founded by the current owner’s father, uncle, and grandfather, Robertson’s is a lesson in staying nimble. “It’s a constant evolution in a salvage yard,” Robertson says. “You have to change with the times to be able to make money.”

Originally established to supply parts to the family’s gas and repair station in Boston, Robertson’s transitioned totally to the salvage business when the oil company reclaimed ownership of the gas station. In the ensuing four and a half decades, Robertson’s has sold repairable wrecks; established, participated in, and eventually closed a salvage pool; launched a GMC dealership that continues today and opened and subsequently closed two additional salvage yards.

Through all the changes inside and out, Robertson’s continues to supply repair shops, body shops, insurance companies, and other wholesale customers in New England and coast to coast from its tightly packed, 24-acre original location.

There has been a lot of change in the times in the last 30 years in the Salvage Yard Business .

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