Once a car, truck or van has been wrecked beyond repair or simply decommissioned, it will end up at the auto wrecker in Joliet where it will be stripped of any useable parts. The used parts are used in the repair of a similar vehicle and what’s left is recycled. A recycling center is called a scrap yard, it buys from the auto wrecker in Joliet, process it and sell it for recycling. The common materials culled for recycling are all found in a car and include steel, iron, copper, aluminum, lead etc. The scrap yard will also accept junk from sources other than the auto wrecker in Joliet; they buy scrap appliances, electronics, scrap copper cable and more. Whatever can be recycled for further use invariably begins it metamorphous in the scrap yard. The auto wrecker in Joliet will at times be the place where junk cars are taken and the usable parts stripped for resale purposes or it may also combine both functions and be a scrap recycling center as well. At other times the recycling center is a standalone business simply receiving scrap material for recycling. Although the vehicle is no longer in a condition to drive, there are still many parts which can be resold for repair or replacement purposes. If the car is reasonably new and was totaled in a wreck it may have a complete drive train including the engine, transmission, drive shaft and rear end intact. Items which are not part of the running gear are often resold; windshields, dash gauges, interior components and much more are stripped by the auto wrecker in Joliet and kept as a resale item. As the vehicles arrive at the scrap yard they are inventoried, a list of usable parts is...