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Recovery Rates
One of the most important aspects of the End of Life Vehicle Directive is the requirement for meeting recycling and recovery rates. In 2006 the first target of 85% must be achieved of which 80% is through material recovery for re-use and the following 5% through energy recovery.
The DTI commissioned an ELV trial to establish the level for the average metal content from cars and light vans. Approximately four hundred vehicles were processed through the Sims Metal facility at Newport, South Wales, one of the most modern and advanced shredding installations in the world. The average metal content established by this trial is 75% of the vehicle. This will be allocated to the ATFs when their ELVs are shredded at appropriate facilities around the country.
From 1st January 2006, the ATF will have the legal responsibility to reuse, recycle or recover the balance between this protocol level and the 85%. This will not be possible from the depollution process alone and Sims are developing their processes to create a service for the Recycle your Car network members, who chose to use it, to help them reach this target.
Sims Group is making a considerable and ongoing investment in post shredder technologies to recover polymers and other non-metallics from End of Life Vehicles cost effectively.
Sims aims to achieve this through a number of technological and process advancements at its shredding facilities and dense media plant. They are also looking to evolve their dedicated plastics recycling line, successfully refining material from waste electrical equipment and make this compatible with ELV derived plastics and rubber.
Markets are relatively immature for non-metallic materials from ELVs. However, Sims Group has extensive experience in marketing non-metallic materials from its other recycling operations, this gives them the ability to recognise, refine and market these materials in the optimal way to achieve maximum sustainability, alongside their global expertise in the metals market.
Sims Group aim to provide an independent package of support to ATFs by providing certificates of recycling that help bridge the gap to the 85% target, which must be achieved from 1st January 2006 onwards.
Additional Services
Members of the Recycle your Car network will also benefit from a number of other value added services beyond the immediate need to answer the requirements of the ELV legislation.
These services include a Group purchasing scheme for the correct recovery or recycling of hazardous wastes and materials. As a group Recycle your Car will arrange contracts with organisations on a network-wide scale, allowing “bulk” purchase agreements to give savings on the disposal of, for instance, collected oil from the depollution process.
Recycle your Car will also be advertising itself extensively and network members will benefit directly from a growing awareness of the service within their local area, at no cost.
In addition Recycle your Car offers its members a free public relations consultancy service, enabling each AFT to actively promote their facility.
For the latest, full list, of value added services available from joining the Recycle your Car network, please phone us on 0808 20 200 66.
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