Junk Yard / Wrecking Yard
A wrecking yard (Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian English), scrapyard (British English) or junkyard (American English) is the location of a business in dismantling where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as scrap metal parts, are sold to metal-recycling companies. Other terms include wreck yard, wrecker’s yard, salvage yard, breakers yard, dismantler and scrapheap. In the United Kingdom, car salvage yards are known as car breakers, while motorcycle salvage yards are known as bike breakers. In Australia, they are often referred to as ‘Wreckers’.
Solon
Solon (soh-lin) is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, and is a suburb of Cleveland. It is part of Northeast Ohio‘s combined Cleveland-Akron-Canton metropolitan area, the 15th-largest Combined Statistical Area in the country. According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2012, the city population was estimated at 23,160.[6]
The city has been recognized by Money in its list of “Best Places to Live” multiple times, placing 23rd in 2009,[7] 3rd in 2011,[8]and 10th in 2015.[9][10] The city has been rated as one of the safest in Ohio,[11][12] has a highly rated public school system,[13]and was ranked as one of the “best places to raise kids” by Bloomberg Businessweek.[14]
Solon has a strong economy and in 2013 and 2014 was granted a Google eCity award, recognizing it as the city with the strongest online business community in Ohio.[15]