All auto shredding: evaluation of automotive shredder residue generated by shredding only vehicles.
A well developed infrastructure exists for the reuse and recycling of automotive parts and materials. At the end of a vehicle's useful life many parts are removed and sold for reuse and fluids are recovered for recycling or proper disposal. What remains is shredded, along with other metal bearing scrap such as home appliances, demolition debris and process equipment, and the metals are separated out and recycled. The remainder of the vehicle materials is call shredder residue which ends up in the landfill. As energy and natural resources becomes more treasured, increased effort has been afforded to find ways to reduce energy consumption and minimize the use of our limited resources. Many of the materials found in shredder residue could be recovered and help offset the use of energy and material consumption. For example, the energy content of the plastics and rubbers currently landfilled with the shredder residue is equivalent to 16 million barrels of oil per year. However, in the United States, the recovered materials, primarily polymers, cannot be recycled due to current regulatory barriers which preclude the re-introduction into commerce of certain materials because of residual contamination with substances of concern (SOCs) such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Themore »
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- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; APPLIANCES; AUTOMOBILES; BEARINGS; CADMIUM; CAPACITORS; CONTAMINATION; DEMOLITION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; MANUFACTURING; ORIGIN; PLASTICS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYMERS; RECYCLING; RESIDUES; RUBBERS; SCRAP; SERVICE LIFE; SHREDDERS; TRADE; TRANSFORMERS
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