Albuquerque—Officials from Bernalillo County’s Office of Environmental Health recently awarded certificates of success to 29 South Valley auto recyclers for their implementation of key pollution prevention practices, part of the county’s Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) program.
Those prevention practices range from the proper disposal of batteries and automotive fluids to maintaining proper paperwork for incoming vehicles, officials said.
The office of Environmental Health has been successful in establishing a partnership of affected community residents and owners of auto recyclers to identify and implement pollution prevention practices for the auto recycling industry as part of the CARE Project.
In addition to receiving a certificate of success, auto recyclers will also be eligible to participate in an advertising media campaign encouraging customers to shop at auto recyclers displaying the CARE logo.
Automotive recyclers that earned exemplary rating are: A- Foreign Auto Parts, Albuquerque Foreign Auto Parts, Capo’s Truck & Auto Parts, and South Coors Truck Salvage.
The following yards received a satisfactory rating:
A-1 Auto Salvage, ABC Foreign Auto Parts, ACME Auto Salvage, All Mini Trucks, A&M Auto Sales and Recyclers, Bones Towing, Brannex Truck Parts, Broadway Truck Salvage, Coors Auto Recycling, Discount Auto Parts, and Downtown Imports.
And El Balsero, El Gigante, El Mexicano Truck Salvage, El Mexicano Auto Salvage No. 2, Five Js Auto Parts, J and E Auto Salvage and Sales, Midway Auto Sales & Parts, Olguin’s Auto, Raceway Auto Parts, Southwest Auto Recyclers, S and V Automotive, Triple M Auto and Truck Parts, Truck Town, and U-Pull and Pay.
