Friday 22 February 2013

The Future of Car Scrapping

The EU directive set out 85% scrap car Recycling on end-of-life cars in the UK. It means 85% of a vehicle by weight must be recycled when it comes to the end of its useful life.

When this is a solid start, there is still a little distance to go with car scrapping techniques. Just through recycling the metal only, the 85% target can be achieved.

Now the Matter is that how to recycle the remain parts of the car, generally there is the plastic, rubber, textile foam or other non metallic products.

To set up for the next level when scrapping a car, we can refer some examples like :

1. Mobile phones are tradeable commodity, they are dismantled down to their core components and practically recycled 100%.



2. Printer cartridges also 100% recycled so these examples reflect the future of the scrap car recycling process. Leading edge recycling technique in the process of old printer cartridges has moved away from the traditional shredding method to cover up the plastics. The technology now uses machines designed to dismantle the cartridges likewise machines are used to build them but the process in reverse order.



This has two benefits, 50% more plastic is recovered over the traditional but mess shredding method and most importantly is shredding leads to a mixed waste stream. The plastic is contained with bits of paper or metal, by dismantling rather than shredding, waste streams don’t become contaminated.



So This is likely to be the future when Scrapping the car. A dedicated scrap car de-production line, with each component of the car takes off piece by piece and either reused, repaired or recycled cleanly.

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