End-of-life vehicle management: a comprehensive review

Abstract

Waste management is gaining very high importance in recent years. As automotive is one of the most critical sectors worldwide, which is rapidly increasing, the management of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) gains importance day by day. Due to legislation and new regulations, actors like users, producers, and treatment facilities are being conferred new responsibilities in the ELV management process. Besides, the ELV management is of vital importance for environment conservation, circular economy and sustainable development. All of these reasons are making the ELV management such a crucial issue to study. Today, the ELV management is a well-positioned and emergent research area. However, the available review papers are focused only on a small area of the ELV management, such as reverse logistics, recovery infrastructure, disassemblability, etc. Besides, a review of state-of-the-art mathematical models for the ELV management is still missing. This paper aims to provide an extensive content analysis overview of studies on the ELV management. A total of 232 studies published in the period 2000-2019 are collected, categorized, reviewed and analyzed. A critical review of the published literature is provided. Gaps in the literature are identified to clarify and suggest future research directions. This review can provide a source of references, valuable insights, and opportunities for researchers interested in the ELV management and inspire their additional attention.Publisher's Note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Framing Electric Mobility for Urban Sustainability in a Circular Economy Context: An Overview of the Literature

“…In a systematic meta-review article on the management of (ICE) end-of-life vehicles (ELVs), Karagoz et al [96] (p. 416) note that because of legislation and new regulations, actors like customers, producers, and treatment facilities are given new responsibilities in the ELV management process, and that "ELV management is of vital importance for environment conservation, circular economy and sustainable development." Konietztko et al [97] (p. 1) argue that CE "maximizes the value of material resources and minimizes GHG emissions, resource use, waste, and pollution."…”

Sustainable Plant Layout Design for End of Life Vehicle Recycling and Disassembly Industry Based on SLP Method, a Typical Case in China

“…Generally, some specific pollutants and fossil oil of ELV are firstly recovered after pre-processing, then the reusable components, the remanufactured parts, and the recyclable materials can be obtained after efficient disassembly, which can be sold again, thus re-entering the life cycle of a new product [38]. The materials obtained by sorting can be recycled once the ELV body wreckage is shredded, and the reusable materials can also be extracted from the residues after shredding through sorting carefully.…”

A Systematic Literature Review of Reverse Logistics of End-of-Life Vehicles: Bibliometric Analysis and Research Trend

“…Sharma and Pandey [12] ELVs processing 2013-2019 41 Karagoz et al [13] ELVs management 2000-2019 232 Rosa and Terzi [14] ELVs waste streams 2001-2015 35 Cucchiella et al [15] Automotive electronics 2000-2014 50 Buekens and Zhou [16] Automotive shredder residue plastics 1977-2012 76 Gan and He [17] Reverse logistics 2002-2013 38 Zhang and Chen [18] Automotive plastics 1993-2012 63 Simic [2] Environmental engineering issues 2003-2012 93 Go et al [19] Disassemblability 1992-2010 38 Nourreddine [20] Shredder residue treatment 1991- 2004 26 Given the above, these reviews lay a particular emphasis on the study of ELVs reverse logistics from a unique perspective, such as regulations, management, disassembly, processing technology, parts or material recycling, etc., and do not include all the research on ELVs reverse logistics, nor provide a comprehensive understanding of this field. Moreover, with a growing number of papers on ELVs reverse logistics, the above review methods cannot find out the relationship between published literature and the performance of related publications.…”

“…It highlighted the informal setting of the industry through case studies and quantified its potential in promoting resource efficiency in India. Besides, Karagoz et al [13] used the content analysis method to classify and analyze 232 articles in the field of ELVs management. Rosa and Terzi [14] compared ELVs and WEEE waste streams from multiple perspectives through structured literature analysis, proving the potential commonness and current differences.…”