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Waccamaw Metal Recycling is already setting space aside on their lot for clunkers.
As the Senate debates whether or not to infuse more cash into the Cash for Clunkers program, metal recyclers are standing by hoping to cash in, too.
At Waccamaw Metal Recycling, they already have space set aside on their lot for those clunkers just as soon as they come in.
Business has been slow this summer at Waccamaw Metal Recycling, but the owner expects his business to double over the next couple of months, thanks to 'Cash for Clunkers.'
Local dealers haven't brought him any clunkers yet, due to some red tape.
"They haven't been getting funding from the government promptly like they should have been," said Jeffery Rogers, Waccamaw Metal Recycling.
But Rogers expects those cars to start rolling in within the next few days. He's cleared this space on his lot to pile them up and his car lift is ready to start draining the fluids. Rogers says most local dealers will have from 15-45 old cars that they'll be anxious to get rid of, and he wants that business.
"I've called on every car dealership in Horry County, as far away as little river and into the edge of North Carolina."
The clunkers will be put through a shredding machine, and they'll end up being made into new cars or just about anything else that's metal. Rogers says every car dealer in town is buzzing about 'Cash for Clunkers,' and it'll be a real shot in the arm for his business as well.
"I don't know if it will be enough for us to have any additional employees but maybe some overtime for the guys that are here now," says Rogers.
There's a couple of extra steps required for clunkers. All the fluids have to be drained and they have to be scrapped within 180 days. Rogers says neither of those is a big problem.
More than 200,000 cars will be scrapped under 'Cash for Clunkers' nationwide.
