Vehicle recycling

Vehicle recycling is the process of disposal of motor vehicles and resulting success in commodity recovery. In western industrialized nations and in most other countries of the world, a large proportion of the metals is now recycled in this way.

Decommissioning and recycling

Victim or defective vehicles whose repair is no longer economical, and vehicles that are not roadworthy, are usually adopted by a local auto recycling operation or purchased and eventually scrapped. The ELV committed now, car manufacturers to take back the vehicles.

These vehicles are inspected and approved issued the corresponding proof of disposal. The vehicles are first drained, which means the liberation of environmentally hazardous supplies. This is followed by the neutralization of the pyrotechnic devices such as airbags or belt tensioners.

Next step is the development and storage of salable used parts, such as consistently traded aggregates, such as engine, transmission, alternator, axle parts, for repair of other vehicles of the same type. The interior features like seats, shelves, door panels, and body parts, such as hoods and doors or electrical equipment ( headlights, taillights, switch) are developed for sale and stored. Often, however, only large aggregates are removed from the recovery operation; further extensions you then leave the parts purchasing willing customers. Ready -developed parts ( partly functionally tested ) are also higher in the procurement price, in contrast, saves a self- expansion costs.

Compaction

Has the vehicle then a certain degree of disassembly is obtained or a longer service life, it is endverwertet: The usual in Germany form the car scrapping is to compress the freed from recyclable spare parts automobile using a press and crush it with the help of a shredder. Thus, the further transport of wrecked vehicles to steel -producing companies or shredding facilities is cost-effective.

Fractionation

In Germany there are about 65 shredder plants that fractionate the vehicles in shredders. This steel scrap is deposited via magnets, nonferrous metals and plastics are separated by sink-float plants and air separation for raw materials. The complete automobile shall be given in a shredder ( hammer mill ) and torn into fist- sized pieces. In various stages of the downstream separation materials ( magnetic ) metals, light metals and plastics and shredder light fraction separated into fractions. The residues from recycling, called RESH are either brought into an incinerator or disposed in a landfill.

The shredder scrap is steel plants fed back to the preparations of new steel, serves the varietal steel as cooling scrap in steelmaking. Due to European legislation, an extensive pre-treatment is now necessary before the shredding of a vehicle. Impure mixed scrap can significantly affect the quality of new steel. Prices for scrap and its wiederwertbaren raw materials vary greatly. Thus, the raw materials are a destination for traders and recyclers in cars. The advent of iron and steel scrap exceeds in all vehicle utilizations the emergence of other metals many times. Thus, iron and steel scrap vehicle recycling is supplied as a secondary raw material in the steel industry, the demand for raw materials is now covered over 50% of scrap waste.

Terms of Use

If a wrecked car illegally parked on public roads, the holder is legally prosecuted properly. According to § 326 of the Penal Code, illegal End of Life Vehicles a criminal offense dar. If this causes environmentally hazardous substances from relevant cases can be punished by a fine or by imprisonment under criminal law. The disorderly disposal of old cars can be punished with a fine of up to 50,000 EUR. Therefore, the approval agency shall request the last holder of cancellation of his vehicle a proper waste management. This is issued by the certified recycling operation and documented the proper disposal of the old vehicle. If this can not be provided, go regulatory agencies of illegal disposal ( eg roadside ) or by improper waste storage (whether in private garages, even with longer-term restoration projects) from.

By mid-2008 up to 300 euros was paid by recyclers for a complete ELV; the steel mills went to the markets for scrap. With the scrappage scheme the economic stimulus package II Altautobesitzern were paid 2,500 euros if they could scrap their vehicle. As a result, the scrap price dropped to a new low. Due to the large demand for steel scrap in emerging countries such as China, the price of scrap steel has returned to normal.

Schrott-/Altfahrzeugexport

Many used vehicles move from scrap dealers in Germany and abroad (especially to Africa, Middle East and earlier in the former Eastern Bloc ). There, they are gone for a long time usually and therefore are not scrapped in Central Europe.