Reddit reviews Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment
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No, cars have always been the most recycled product since their inception. Every piece of metal, rubber, and glass, and some of the plastics all get recycled.
In Auto Mania McMcarthy describes the process of Ford's Dearborn plant which recycled "hulks" in house to be re-used in the new models. That was circa 1915.
That's why abandoning cars is silly. Either sell them to a restorer or junk them, leaving them to rot is environmentally unsafe, especially for antiques that may have chromium or lead in them.
EDIT: Although I should mention that the River Rouge plant was far from "eco-conscious" in the modern sense. It dumped insane amounts of toxic chemicals into the River, and part of that was because of old cars were being destroyed in the same place they were being built.