At the same time, the dominant auto industry helped advance the formation of another industry that continues to thrive today, one that’s created more than 500,000 jobs across the nation: the scrap metal recycling industry.
As a rising amount of scrap was being generated at the state’s manufacturing and production plants, recycling firms began to proliferate as it became clear that scrap still had value, including when automobiles had outlived their usefulness.
Just as auto assembly lines produce a certain amount of scrap metal that doesn’t get used and can be discarded, scrap recyclers have demonstrated that there’s still plenty of value and use for it.
And since industrial scrap metal recycling helps manufacturers hold down costs, demand for recycled metals has been on the rise for years.
By World War 2, the ability of Michigan’s Auto Industry to effectively handle mass production was used toward the war effort, as workers delivered Jeeps, tanks, planes and guns by the thousands.
(not very informative, and it's repetitious, but, that's a recycling yard from 1942, and this is the text that accompanied it, editted down for brevity)
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/822076/825260.html?1515632700
https://glescrap.com/auto-manufacturers-michigan-scrap-metal-recycling
For many photos of the war effort of recycling, the FDR Library: http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu:8000/BROWSE.cgi?db=2&pos=351&inc=50
https://www.vintag.es/2013/11/vintage-photos-of-classic-car-salvage.html
https://hogyantortent.com/napi-erdekes-33/
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