The 2nd International Recycle Conference
/Kanazawa’08 for THE CAR
The 2nd International Recycle Conference
・Kanazawa’08 for THE CAR
Sustainable ELV Recycling System
Environmental Impact from each unit of cars has been improved year by year, but the number
of cars in the world is about 840 million in the end of 2003, and it is estimated to reach one billion in 2010. Referring each country share, United States occupies 230 million, Japan 74million, Germany 49million, and China about 36 mlliion, which is increasing rapidly. The number of cars for sale in the world is 67million in 2005, and referring main country share, United States occupies17million,China 7,5million,and Japan 5,7million in 2006. Japan is the second largest auto manufacturing country in the world, the number of production in our own country was about 10 million and overseas production was also 10 million, total number has become over 20 million as of 2005.The same year of 2005, the number of ELV (End of Life Vehicle) in the world was estimated more than about 30 million, and about 3,5million ELV occurred in Japan.
In Japan ELV Recycling Act has been enforced since January l, 2005. This act aims to perform proper treatment and high recycling rate of ELV to reduce the amount of Automobile Shredder
Residues(ASR). Following these main objectives:
- To bund up circulation through industrial society.
Auto-manufacturer called arterial industry and auto-recycler called venous industry have been linking more and more tightly with information, technology and resources. - To collect three specific items such as CFCs, Airbags and ASR.
If these three hard to recycle item are collected properly, the remains can be processed
appropriately under current recycle market. Auto manufacturers are not imposed total
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)per unit but partial EPR restricted three specific
items. - To be paid recycling fee by users.
When users buy a new car, he must pay the fee at the time of purchase. In the case of car in use， the fee is paid at the time of periodical inspection. This system aims to reduce
recycling cost under the competition of manufacturers and to make the partial EPR clear.
From Cradle to Cradle on Resourees
Average weight of four wheel vehicle is about 1,1t and it consists of materials which contain iron(865kg)，copper(9kg)，aluminum(68kg)，white gold and palladium(3g)，plastics(90kg), glass(28kg)，rubber(33kg) and so on. Experts predict that metal resources like gold, silver and copper will exhaust in 20 to 50 years in mid 21 century, if we continue to mine from underground as usual. For example， though we can extract only 1g from 1t gold ore， but we have acquired technology to refine about 300g fiom 1t end of life cellular phone.
