Siskiyou County, Calif., may be one of the most rural counties in California, but the county has successfully developed an effective way for residents in the far flung county to help recycle many of the junked automobiles that have been accumulated in the county.
The Siskiyou County Planning Commission, along with the police department of one of the cities in the county is looking to bring in a car crusher in Mount Shasta, Calif. Whip’s Crushing, a scrap metal recycling company in White City, Ore., has brought down a portable car crusher several times already. The company, under its three-year contract, runs the program whereby residents of a city can bring in their automobiles, as well as a host of other metals (except refrigerators) that can be crushed and then shipped out to their final destination.
The county works to reduce the cost to tow junked cars to the site where the crusher is located.
This process has been done several previous times in the county, and each one of the programs has been deemed a success. According to local press reports, Bill Pieruccini, police chief for Mount Shasta, Calif., said, “One of the criterion would be that we would be able to have enough vehicles to be crushed, that it would be worthwhile to have someone come down here and do this.”
While Mount Shasta is looking to bring in the car crusher, similar programs have already been conducted in several other parts of the county, which straddles the Oregon border.
In an earlier car crushing program residents of Happy Camp were able to bring about 100 cars to be crushed, making the project a financial success.