Machines

[BigV]

well, it comes out in a stream of chunks/shreds/bits and the ferrous material can easily be sorted out magnetically. That's one stream. The rest, there are other sorting methods, air blowers, by density, etc, etc.

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

In a typical shredding operation, cars are delivered with the wheels off, battery out and they are supposed to remove the gas tank, but I've seen enough explosions to know some don't, the rig is built sturdy enough to handle that. There are big blowers to separate the upholstery/foam, magnets to pick up the ferrous metal (some stainless is ferrous and some is not), but I'm not sure how they separate the plastic, copper, and aluminum because that's done offsite.
Goldfinger used a compactor, not a shredder.

Originally Posted by BigV

well, it comes out in a stream of chunks/shreds/bits and the ferrous material can easily be sorted out magnetically. That's one stream. The rest, there are other sorting methods, air blowers, by density, etc, etc.

Thank you, Gentlemen. All is clear now.
I was labouring under a misapprehension.