When natural disasters hit, what is the very first thought that comes to mind? For most of us, it is relief agency staff, emergency responders, and volunteers. However, a category of professionals that is often overlooked, even though such individuals play a key part in the recovery process, is the people who help with scrap car removal in Victoria.
For us at Jacobs Towing and Recycle, that is just what we were all about when our beloved city and its suburbs were flooded by a massive storm in late November of the year two thousand and twenty-one. Across Canada and all around the world, automobile scrapping businesses like ours continue to be a key element in the community recovery process.
The Aftermath: A Multifaceted Challenge
After floods, severe storms, and earthquakes ravage the streets of Victoria, the remnants can appear like a soft-topped behemoth. With an enormous volume of mangled metal lying everywhere, the vehicle piles prevent the first response crew from rescuing the trapped lives and providing necessary aid, place neighbourhoods at grave environmental risk, and choke the city in its entirety when it comes to tidying up, recovering, and helping the community get back on its feet. That is where Jacobs Towing and Recycle steps in.
When it comes to scrap car removal in Victoria, we do much more than simply removing vehicles; we assist in the claims-processing process, which is often confusing for victims right after the event when life is already chaotic. Our veteran experts catalogue all the removed vehicles, send the owners and the insurance companies the appropriate paperwork, and arrange for the proper disposal or recycling. This not only clears the road but also facilitates the claims process so that residents can move on to rebuilding their lives.
From Waste to Resource: Our Commitment to Sustainability
We are still doing recycling and resource recovery, even if everybody is somewhat broken. The need to keep repurposeable materials out of the waste stream is clearly justified and clear—it conserves resources and creates employment in the manufacturing sector by feeding them back into the community from scrap vehicles.
As a leading expert in scrap car removal in Victoria, Jacobs Towing and Recycle recycles about only a handful of cars every week, a relatively small amount considering the hundreds of cars that can pile up at other neighbouring junkyards when times are good, but every little bit helps. However, we only salvage the ones that seem like a total loss, and this often involves stripping each of them of useful pieces in the first place, such as rubber from wheels, thus making the most of the cars before they proceed to the crusher.
Beyond Vehicle Removal: A Holistic Approach to Community Support
We are often engaged in more than merely the physical act of scrap car removal in Victoria—we may be the ones scrambling through scrap cars to get back personal belongings—offering information and counselling to vehicle owners and also providing refuge, albeit temporarily, for vehicles that we have saved.
The aforementioned supplemental services remain a true testament to our unwavering dedication to serving the local community—by easing, in some small measure, the strains and stresses endured by victims in the wake of a disaster, we are not only taking on multiple roles but also performing them in ways that result in a more sympathetic and fractionated recovery operation, in which nobody walks away ostracized, nor should one.
