Automobile recycling in the United States: Energy impacts and waste generation

Das, Sujit; Curlee, T.R.; Rizy, C.G.; Schexnayder, Susan

doi:10.1016/0921-3449(95)00021-a

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“…Similar observations (and conclusions) have been made in examinations of the automotive [9,10], office [11,12] and institutional [13,14] sectors. The consensus appears to be that while many IC&I establishments implement waste management programs, insufficient planning is spent on source reduction, or diverting waste from disposal.…”

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Formation Mechanism and Performance of Dynamic Membrane Technology for Municipal Wastewater Treatment - A Review

Alepu¹,

Segun²,

Ikhumhen³

2016

Adv Recycling Waste Manag

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Formation Mechanism and Performance of Dynamic Membrane Technology for Municipal Wastewater Treatment - A Review

Alepu¹,

Segun²,

Ikhumhen³

2016

Adv Recycling Waste Manag

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“…Any potential pyrolysis process for shredder residue (SR), however, is a heterogeneous mixture of all the materials found in cars, ovens, etc., and this heterogeneity needs to be taken into account when designing fuels from it. Shredder residue is produced when ELVs and other scrap are shredded into pieces the size of an orange, and the metal chunks (70%) removed from the rest, usually with an air cyclone, for steel recycling [9,11,18,32,33]. The remaining 30% is usually run through a trommel for size separation, and the larger pieces processed further to remove more metals (5%).…”

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A critical review of developments in the pyrolysis of automotive shredder residue

Harder

Forton

2007

Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis

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Worldwide, automotive shredder residue (ASR) is considered an increasingly problematic mixture of materials that needs the development of a processing solution.Pyrolysis is a process that has many advantages to offer, but despite many studies and developments in recent years at various levels of commercialisation, it is still generally considered unproven for this purpose. This paper critically considers developmental work published in the field, presents new results, and suggests that a major reason for the lack of development is the complexity of the landscape created by strong, competing, economic, legislative, environmental and commercial drivers, which in turn make it unclear which products and processes are optimal. This is made doubly complex by the natural variation in the material composition of ASR, with contaminants that can critically affect its potential fate to anywhere in the range from hazardous waste, to energy source, to useful raw material for major cement or steel industries.New data on critical factors such as levels of chlorine and metals in raw and pyrolysed ASR are presented, alongside a much-needed summary of previously published values from references that are often difficult to source. The summaries emphasise the variation in the material, but also indicate rough boundaries for values, which are needed for the design of any potentially successful process. 3It is suggested that the heterogeneity seen across ASR types implies that specialised processing of SR on its own is unlikely. It is pointed out that small-scale processes that could be suitable for local requirements should be considered for development as they could be able to optimise a process sufficiently to make it viable, e.g. specialised local waste streams of paper pulp and a particular fraction of SR.

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“…Firstly, Aggeri (1999) [20] has studied cooperative movements in the automotive industry, although these papers have been used to study only manufacturers. Other studies have analysed environmental issues in automotive industry (Das et al, 1995;Khare, 1999, 2000;Mildenberger and Khare, 2000) [21][22][23][24], but they have not studied the implications derived from companies' environmental actions, especially on decisions isolated from manufacturing strategy. On the other hand, these papers are descriptive and are not focused on the analysis of the implications derived from new command-and-control environmental laws, but with a preventive bias.…”

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Preventive Command and Control Regulation: A Case Analysis

Junquera

González

2016

Sustainability

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Abstract:The aim of the current study is to evaluate new preventive command-and-control environmental regulation's competitive effects on automobile manufacturers and their suppliers. The methodology that we have used is a case analysis, and its main aim is to study an unfamiliar situation. Therefore, we have chosen cases from each of the groups: two suppliers and one manufacturer. The new regulation obliges automobile companies to deeply modify their process technologies and their relationships with their suppliers (toughening requirements and strengthening long-term relationships) and to require their workers to train in environmental matters. Complying with regulation by suppliers will be possible if product and process designs are modified. However, only organisational actions, which include workers' training in environmental and quality matters and activities to recover value in factories, are capable to achieve it. In any case, these factories have already been affected by trade-offs between environmental and other more classic manufacturing objectives, especially quality.

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Automobile recycling in the United States: Energy impacts and waste generation

Cited by 58 publications

References 4 publications

Formation Mechanism and Performance of Dynamic Membrane Technology for Municipal Wastewater Treatment - A Review

Formation Mechanism and Performance of Dynamic Membrane Technology for Municipal Wastewater Treatment - A Review

A critical review of developments in the pyrolysis of automotive shredder residue

Preventive Command and Control Regulation: A Case Analysis

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