RECICLAUTO LIFE99 ENV/E/000375 - Demonstration and Pilot Experience of Recycling and Decontamination System for end-use Vehicles. Implementation at the Region of Navarra (Area of Pamplona).
Overview
Background & policy context:
Every year many vehicles are officially taken out of circulation. The tendency is towards a decrease in their average working life. A vehicle contains about 20 litres of extractable liquids. Each litre of untreated oil causes the pollution of 3,434 litres of water. Some top of the range cars contain approximately 25 kg of high quality glass. About 150 bottles can be manufactured from the lateral windows. Currently the only materials recycled are the metal parts and the breaker is responsible for separating these into steel or aluminium, etc.
Objectives:
The main goal of the project was to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of the integral management of End of Life Vehicles (ELVs). The project would involve all the players in order to guarantee the disposal and management of the vehicle waste, reaching recycling and reutilization levels of 85%. The project would propose an alternative system for the management of ELVs. This would include an area for the temporary storage of vehicles (with impermeable ground), tools for the storage of materials and waste, and a production line for dismantling vehicles in a factory building where all the operations necessary for decontamination and recycling would be carried out. The results of the project would go to prove that the levels of recycling, reusing and recovery established by the European Directive (Council Directive 2000/53/CE of the 18th September 2000 on End-of-Life Vehicles) are possible to achieve.
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