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End-of-life vehicle recycling and automobile shredder residue management in Japan

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The Japanese Government introduced the Law on Recycling of End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV Recycling Law) in 2002. This law requires manufacturers to retrieve chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), airbags, and automobile shredder residue (ASR) from ELVs and to properly recycle the remaining materials. This framework is compared with European ELV directives. Pilot-scale incineration plant testing has revealed a greater formation of by-product persistent organic pollutants (POPs) during the primary combustion of ASR compared to normal municipal solid waste. This may be attributed to the abundance of chlorine, Cu, and Fe in ASR, as Cu and Fe have been found to catalyze the formation of POPs under certain conditions. However, most by-product POPs were destroyed by the secondary combustion, and almost all were removed after flue gas treatment. The direct melting system is a shaft-type gasification and melting technology that has proved effective in many municipal solid waste applications. This system can be applied to ASR recycling for effective decomposition of brominated flame retardants and polybrominated dioxins.

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  1. Environmental Preservation Center, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Shin-ichi Sakai

  2. National Institute for Environmental Studies, Research Center for Material Cycles and Waste Management, Tsukuba, Japan

    Yukio Noma & Akiko Kida

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Sakai, Si., Noma, Y. & Kida, A. End-of-life vehicle recycling and automobile shredder residue management in Japan. J Mater Cycles Waste Manag 9, 151–158 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-007-0180-2

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