Vehicle Recycling Partnership Vehicle Recycling Partnership for thefor the

Suppliers Partnership for the Suppliers Partnership for the EnvironmentEnvironment

DfE Work Group MeetingDfE Work Group MeetingMarch 1, 2004

USCAR1000 Town Center, St. 300

Southfield, MI 48075

MissionMission StatementStatement

The mission of the Vehicle Recycling

Partnership is to promote an integrated

approach to the technical and economic

feasibility of recycling for vehicles built in

North America for the global marketplace.

2002 – 2007 VRP Emphasis2002 – 2007 VRP Emphasis

Pre-Competitive Research and Technology Transfer

• Cost Effective

• Environmental Soundness

• Collaborative Approach

• Infrastructure Focus

• Materials Management

• Material Separation Technologies

• Pilot Plant Demonstrations

• Energy Recovery

• Material Substitutions

• Life Cycle Assessment

• Component Recyclability Assessment

Sustainability: Society, Economics and Environmental

ScopeScope North American Vehicles

• End of useful life Sustainable infrastructure

• Environmental impact - minimized• Shredder residue – broader scope• Substances of concern – leveraged phase

out Global roll out of practices

Past VRP ActivitiesPast VRP Activities

Engineering Projects• U.S. Field Trial Project – automotive plastic

recycling project• Automated Separation Process • Substances of Concern Task Force

(e.g. lead free e-coat, testing protocols)

• National LCI Data Base (NREL)

Substances of Concern (No redundant actions) Coordination with existing entities

• USCAR Fastener Committee

• Auto Alliance

• Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG)

Supplier / Industry awareness campaign• American Plastics Council (APC)/pigments

Common list of known applications • Usage of mercury, lead, cadmium, hexavalent chromium and

nickel

Past VRP ActivitiesPast VRP Activities

Strategic Issues • Substances of Concern

– Hexavalent Chromium, Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Nickel

• Roadmap DOE / ANL / CRADA / Cooperative Agreement– Leveraging Resources

VRPVRP Strategy 2003/4 & BeyondStrategy 2003/4 & BeyondNext Steps/Roadmap AlignmentNext Steps/Roadmap Alignment

Develop a collaborative automotive materials recycling program for recycling future North American end-of-life vehicles

Develop an implementation plan to work with Argonne National Labs, DOE & Collaborators on recycling end-of-life vehicles of the future.

Create a new CRADA or Cooperative Agreement with Argonne & collaborators.• Perform baseline assessment of the recycling systems and technology

(worldwide).

• Post-shredding technologies and separation demonstrations for extended operating pilot

• Recovered polymer compatibility, system integration & optimization

VRP Strategy 2003/4 & BeyondVRP Strategy 2003/4 & BeyondNext Steps/Roadmap Alignment/CRADANext Steps/Roadmap Alignment/CRADA

Automated Separation (Salyp) •Troy Polymers Inc. •Midland Compounding•MBA Polymers Inc.

HexChrome protocol•Testing•Suppliers•Materials

Current Project ActivityCurrent Project Activity

Advanced Shredder Technologies (ISRI Collaborator)

•Greater metal extraction / Greater plastics extraction

•SOC Isolation - chemically & physically•CWT Depolymerization of SR•DRI briquettes•Other Recovery Technologies

Automated Separation Automated Separation of Plastics from Shredder Residueof Plastics from Shredder Residue

LCA StudiesLCA Studies Material recovery approach (including our

previously researched technologies; RPI, Salyp, MBA, etc.)

Benchmark technologies Plastic streams – does this make sense? Renewables - impact on recyclability Advanced Material Vehicles– impact on

recyclability Reuse of parts Regulation - global differences in calculations Marketing studies - what are really the market

drivers for PCR plastics?

Global Differences inGlobal Differences in Calculation Calculation

Assessment of calculation methods• Renewables• Hybrids• Reuse

Regulation assessment Recyclability calculations

Advanced Material VehiclesAdvanced Material Vehicles

Detailed dismantling analyses• New SOC concerns to deal with?

• Assessment of recyclability

• Assessment of ASR

• Assessment of component recyclability

SOC Task Force ProjectsSOC Task Force Projects

Cr+6 testing CCRT Hg free seminar Nickel seminar Electroless nickel Metal finishing panel

(November 2004)

CRADA PartnersCRADA Partners

Cooperative Research Agreement

(CRADA) No. 0201801 – September 2003

Argonne National Laboratory

American Plastics Council

Vehicle Recycling Partnership