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Automotive Recyclers Association |
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East Coast Auto Salvage Inc is a Proud member of the Automotive Recyclers Association
Since 1943, the ARA has been a non-profit trade association representing an industry dedicated to the efficient removal and reuse of automotive parts, and the safe disposal of inoperable motor vehicles.
ARA services approximately 1,000 member companies through direct membership and over 2,000 other companies through our affiliated chapters. Suppliers of equipment and services  to this industry complete ARA's membership. ARA is the only trade association serving the automotive recycling industry in 12 countries internationally.
ARA aims to further the automotive recycling industry through various services and programs to increase public awareness of the industry's role in conserving the future through automotive recycling and to foster awareness of the industry's value as a high quality, low cost alternative for the automotive consumer. ARA encourages aggressive environmental management programs to assist member facilities in maintaining proper management techniques for fluid and solid waste materials generated from the disposal of motor vehicles.
- Recycling vehicles provides enough steel to produce almost 13 million new vehicles.
- Saves an estimated 85 million barrels of oil a year, that would have been used in the manufacturing of new or replacement parts.
- Automotive recyclers spent nearly $50 million on environmental compliance in 1997.
- The majority of automotive recycling businesses used a computerized inventory system.
- Automotive recyclers provide wholesale and retail customers quality parts that sell for up to 50% less than the comparable new parts.
- Automotive recycling businesses employ some 103,108 people at more than 8,267 businesses around the country.
- An estimated 86% of automotive recycling companies is full-service and employs 10 or fewer people.
- Total annual payroll is estimated to be $3.3 Billion.
- The majority of automotive recyclers can often locate parts faster than new part
 dealers because the facilities are connected by telephone, satellite and/or computerized communications systems to recyclers across the globe.
- Automotive recycling decreases insurance rates by purchasing inoperative vehicles from insurance companies, thus allowing for recovery of financial losses. These vehicles came primarily from individual owners and salvage auctions.
- Automotive recycling keeps highways and roads clear of abandoned and disabled vehicles by providing a place to deposit these vehicles.
(See the ARA website at http://www.a-r-a.org for further details)
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Our Location
East Coast Auto Salvage
733 Killingworth Rd.
Higganum, CT 06441
(860) 345-4591
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Store Hours
Monday-Friday
8AM - 5PM
Saturday
8AM - 12PM
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