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A wrecking yard (Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian English), scrapyard (Irish, British and New Zealand English) or junkyard (American English) is the location of a business in dismantling where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as ...
Junkyard may refer to: Wrecking yard, also known as a junkyard, salvage yard or scrap yard; Junkyard, by Australian band The Birthday Party; Junkyard (band), a hard rock band based in Los Angeles; Junkyard, a dog from G.I. Joe who is owned by Joe member Mutt; Junkyard, a Junkion from The Transformers "Junkyard", a song by Zac Brown Band
Crushed vehicles ready for transportation to a steel mill in the US. Vehicle recycling or automobile scrapping is the dismantling of vehicles for spare parts.At the end of their useful life, vehicles have value as a source of spare parts and this has created a vehicle dismantling industry.
Piles of scrap metal collected for the World War II effort, circa 1941 Collection of leftover scrap metal items. Scrap consists of recyclable materials, usually metals, left over from product manufacturing and consumption, such as parts of vehicles, building supplies, and surplus materials.
Junkyard is an American hard rock band formed in 1987 in Los Angeles, with members previously in Minor Threat, Big Boys, Decry and Dag Nasty. [1] The band drew comparisons with Guns N' Roses (which, like Junkyard, signed with Geffen Records ).
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The junkyard tornado derives from arguments most popular in the 1920s, prior to the modern evolutionary synthesis, which are rejected by evolutionary biologists. [ 5 ] [ 12 ] A preliminary step is to establish that the phase space containing some biological entity (such as humans, working cells, or the eye) is enormous, something not contentious.
Vehicle immobilization is a key part of the act of impounding.. Vehicle impoundment is the legal process of placing a vehicle into an impoundment lot or tow yard, [1] which is a holding place for cars until they are placed back in the control of the owner, recycled for their metal, stripped of their parts at a wrecking yard or auctioned off for the benefit of the impounding agency.