What is a junkyard?
A wrecking yard, Auto Recycling yard, auto salvage yard, wrecker’s yard or breakers yard, (sometimes also known as a junkyard), is the location of an auto dismantling business where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles (most commonly automobiles, but junkyards for motorcycles, bicycles, small planes and boats exist too) are brought, their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as scrap metal parts, are sold to metal-recycling companies.
A junkyard, also known as an automobile wrecking yard, salvage yard, or breakers yard, is any location where wrecked, totaled or decommissioned vehicles are taken. Though there are junkyards for motorcycles, boats, and small planes, most junkyards are for cars and trucks. Junkyards tend to operate on a local basis and are the destination of vehicles that are towed away from crash sites or that no longer run. A junkyard may buy wrecked vehicles from owners, insurance companies, or from cities that are forced to tow abandoned vehicles. Most junkyards have their own wreckers, or tow trucks, but many contract with local towing companies as well. As vehicles come in, the operators inventory the make, year, and model of the vehicle and note the overall condition of the body and the mechanical parts. Junkyard operators dismantle the vehicles they acquire and salvage any usable parts that can be sold for use in similar make and model vehicles in operating condition. The unusable metal parts ar
“Junkyard” means the use of more than 200 square feet of any parcel for the storage of junk, including scrap metals or other scrap materials, or for the dismantling or wrecking of vehicles or machinery. Junkyards are only permitted on industrial zoned properties for which a special use permit for the operation of a junkyard has been granted.
