Sustainable end-of-life vehicle recycling: R&D collaboration between industry and the U.S. DOE

European policies on ship recycling: A stakeholder survey

“…The improvement proposals are related to: conditions of the beaching (control and precleaning), technology and a monitoring of the activity in the yards. In comparing ship recycling with other industries, such as automotive, it is still outdated and without technological developments, 18 and there is an urgent need to change the mentality and the manner in which things are done [70][71][72][73][74]. The current concept of ship recycling does not appear to include the management of toxic waste associated with ship breaking.…”

“…Such collaboration may assist ship recycling yards in detecting and understanding how to manage dangerous substances early. For an example relating to the automotive industry, see [70]. 19 In addition to the hazardous materials set out in the HKC, the EU Regulation adds: clauses.…”

End-of-life vehicle recycling : state of the art of resource recovery from shredder residue.

“…The more than 200 shredders in the United States shred 10 to 15 million vehicles annually (in addition to white goods and other source materials) (Daniels et al 2004). As a result, based on 2000-year vehicle weight, the U.S. shredders currently supply about 17 million tons of recovered ferrous and nonferrous scrap from end-of-life vehicles for use in the metals industry (12 million cars  3,902 lb/vehicle  75% metal content of the car  95% of the metals are recovered).…”

The existed problem, countermeasure and development trend for collection and recycling system of end-of-life vehicles in China

“…For ELV recycling industry in other countries, there are also lots of investigations [16][17][18][19][20][21]. By exploring the limits of recycling on a fundamental basis, the fundamental limits for the recycling of end-of-life vehicles were researched [22].…”