Okay, so the forfeited car is smashed into a cube. It's destroyed as a car, but not destroyed as a collection of potentially useful atoms. What then? Do they s

Okay, so the forfeited car is smashed into a cube. It's destroyed as a car, but not destroyed as a collection of potentially useful atoms. What then? Do they sell the metal? Or does the metal recycling center get to profit from the free lump of metal on their doorstep? Individually, the same applies for the parts. The battery is easily recycled for the lead, and under environmental laws can't simply be tossed into the trash heap. Who gets the profit from that? It's a reduction of value, certainly, but I don't see how the value in a destroyed car goes to 0, so there will still be some conflict of interest.