2016 Word Recycling Forum: Next year’s model?
2016 Word Recycling Forum: Next year’s model?
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China is the world’s fastest growing automotive market, which means in the years ahead it also will have the greatest number of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs). Presenters at the 2016 Word Recycling Forum: Electronics & Cars Recycling, held in Macau, China in mid-November, say there are lessons China can learn from Japan when handling its ELVs.
In an earlier session, Professor Weng Duan of Tsinghua University in Beijing remarked that recyclers in China will have to be ready since, while only an estimated 3.17 million ELVs were ready to be recycled in 2011, that figure is expected to climb to 15.4 million in 2020.
Chai Jing of the Tianjin, China-based China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC), says the Chinese government has assigned CATARC with carrying out a pilot extended producer responsibility (EPR) program for vehicles.
Manufacturers have been cooperative, said Chai, as they are paying “more and more attention to the calculation of the recyclability and recoverability rate” of vehicles and using “environmentally friendly materials” in part to comply with European Union directives.
As part of its project, CATARC is requiring vehicle makers to complete a dismantling manual and catalog for each vehicle model with best practices for dismantling.
Presenter Professor Minoru Goko of the Japan Automotive Recyclers Association (JARA) says the dismantling and parts cataloging system in Japan can provide a potential model for China to follow.
Goko says some 80% of pre-owned auto parts and components sold in Japan are now done so through a nationwide computer network. He says the efforts of dismantlers and recyclers have helped the nation achieve a 95% ELV materials recycling rate, although 12% of that total includes auto shredder residue (ASR) that is used as fuel.
He said vehicle dismantlers in Japan are part of “a very profitable business” in that nation. Goko also indicated that the 2011 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami resulted in some 140,000 unexpected ELVs hitting the market. JARA learned, he said, that as good as its ELV infrastructure was, additional computer network capabilities “could have yielded more recycling” of components and materials.
Panelist Feng Liang of China-based equipment maker Hunan Vary Tech Company Limited said air pollution and illegal (and sometimes environmentally unsound) ELV dismantling are among the challenges created by China’s automotive boom.
Feng also said the opportunities are abundant. There are 603 licensed dismantlers in business in China compared to some 10,000 auto salvage operations in the U.S. With China’s total vehicle market on track to surpass the U.S. in another 10 years, the growth opportunities for recyclers and equipment and software providers are clear, he said.
The 2016 Word Recycling Forum: Electronics & Cars Recycling, was organized by Switzerland-based ICM AG and was Nov. 15-18 in Macau, China.
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Source: Recycling Today
2016 Word Recycling Forum: Next year’s model?
<![CDATA[China is the world’s fastest growing automotive market, which means in the years ahead it also will have the greatest number of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs). Presenters at the 2016 Word Recycling Forum: Electronics & Cars Recycling, held in Macau, China in mid-November, say there are lessons China can learn from Japan when handling its ELVs. In an earlier session, Professor Weng Duan of Tsinghua University in Beijing remarked that recyclers in China will have to be ready since, while only an estimated 3.17 million ELVs were ready to be recycled in 2011, that figure is expected to climb to 15.4 million in 2020. Chai Jing of the Tianjin, China-based China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC), says the Chinese government has assigned CATARC with carrying out a pilot extended producer responsibility (EPR) program for vehicles. Manufacturers have been cooperative, said Chai, as they are paying “more and more attention to the calculation of the recyclability and recoverability rate” of vehicles and using “environmentally friendly materials” in part to comply with European Union directives. As part of its project, CATARC is requiring vehicle makers to complete a dismantling manual and catalog for each vehicle model with best…