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Take a behind the scenes look at day-to-day life at our car recycling facility
An inside look at our vehicle recycling plant
Established in 1978, we're a traditional, family-run car scrapyard that depollutes and recycles 100s of cars every month. Here are a few behind the scenes shots taken by our team of everyday life at our scrap car recycling facility.
A close-up of the hydraulic claw
Waiting to be crushed
Ready for depollution
At work in the yard
A misty morning at the yard
Ready for collection
We can collect multple cars
Vehicles waiting to be recycled
Face off!
Our articulated car transporter
Tonnes of metal ready for recycling
A beautiful, serene day
Ready for action!
Our weighbridge
A visiting sunbeam!
Our distinctive livery
A dull, wet day
Loading the scrap metal
Another car arrives
A full scrap yard!
The trusty claw
Off for depollution
Car parts for recycling
The dreaded claw!
Scrap metal loading
Another car collection arrival
Hard at work
Exporting car parts
Off to the depollution bay
We buy scrap copper
Yet another car collected
Car tyre recycling
Loading the export container
Hazy day
A bird’s-eye view
All vehicles are depolluted
A typical day at the scrap yard
Another scrap metal collection
The Ace Breakers yard
A car ready for depollution
Scrap metal truck
Claw grabbing a Mini
Stripping wires and cables from a vehicle
Recycling made easy
Eat, sleep, recycle, repeat
Delivering a car to the scrap yard
One of the Ace vehicle fleet
Grabbing a Mini for stripping out (portrait view)
The grabber machine
Ace staff busy in “the lab”
Forklifting a car
Forklifting a car
The hydraulic car crusher
One of our collection trucks
The claw with a mouthful of metal
Stripped, ready for crushing and baling
Delivering another car to the scrap yard
A JCB carrying a car
A car on an Ace scrap collection truck
High-lifting a vehicle
A car ready for scrapping
The hydraulic grabber in action
A scenic arena of cars
An aerial view of the Ace Car Breakers scrap yard
